buffet

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A blow with the fist; a box; a cuff; a slap; hence, hard usage of any kind suggestive of blows; a violent shock or concussion: as, “fortune's buffets,”
• noun A blast of wind.
• To strike with the hand or fist; box; beat.
• To beat in contention; contend against as if with blows: as, to buffet the billows.
• To exercise at boxing; box; contend with blows of the fists; hence, to force one's way by buffeting.
• noun A cupboard, sideboard, or closet, designed to hold china, crystal, plate, and other like articles.
• noun The space set apart for refreshments in public places.
• noun That part of the cabinet-work of an organ which incloses the pipes.
• noun Same as buffet-stool. Wright, Prov. Dict.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun A blow with the hand; a slap on the face; a cuff.
• noun A blow from any source, or that which affects like a blow, as the violence of winds or waves; a stroke; an adverse action; an affliction; a trial; adversity.
• noun A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.
• transitive verb To strike with the hand or fist; to box; to beat; to cuff; to slap.
• transitive verb To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.
• transitive verb To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.
• intransitive verb To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
• intransitive verb To make one's way by blows or struggling.
• noun A cupboard or set of shelves, either movable or fixed at one side of a room, for the display of plate, china, etc., a sideboard.
• noun A counter for food or refreshments.
• noun A restaurant containing such a counter, as at a railroad station, or place of public gathering.
• noun A meal set out on a buffet[2], arranged so that guests may serve themselves and choose those items that they desire. Diners usually take a plate provided and move in a line past the items on the buffet[2], placing those items they desire on the plate, to be eaten at some convenient place.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.
• noun Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.
• noun A low stool; a hassock.
• noun A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.
• verb transitive To strike or blow with a buffet or buffets.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun usually inexpensive bar
• noun a meal set out on a buffet at which guests help themselves
• verb strike, beat repeatedly
• verb strike against forcefully
• noun a piece of furniture that stands at the side of a dining room; has shelves and drawers