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Definition
hit against repeatedly
- And to him in answer spake the fair-crowned queen of the echoing chase: "It was thy wife that buffeted me, father, the white-armed Hera, from whom are strife and contention come upon the immortals."Book 21 (84% in)
- By cunning is a woodman far better than by force; by cunning doth a helmsman on the wine-dark deep steer his swift ship buffeted by winds; by cunning hath charioteer the better of charioteer.Book 23 (39% in)
There are no more uses of "buffet" in The Iliad by Homer (translated by: Lang, Leaf, & Myers).
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