0 present participle of buffet
1 (of wind, rain, etc.) to hit something repeatedly and with great force:
The little boat was buffeted mercilessly by the waves.
These include stalling, high-lift devices including ' flexible ' variable-geometry systems, boundary-layer control, jet flaps, buffeting, supercritical aerofoils, wave drag in supersonic flight, blunt trailing edges and wing-body strakes.
This is most encouraging after the buffeting we have been through since the recent innovations.
The hereditary system has, of course, come in for some fairly stiff buffeting this afternoon.
We were also subject to the buffeting of external stimuli.
Notwithstanding the pressures and difficulties, and the buffeting that the work force has taken from the errors of the board, morale has been remarkably high.
I do not want to see any child made the subject of buffeting about through legal processes.
We have had some encouragements and perhaps rather more buffetings.
Secondly, manufacturing industry has received a buffeting and too much manufacturing industry has gone out of business altogether.
