Buf″fet, v. i. 1. To exercise or play at boxing; to strike; to smite; to strive; to contend.
If I might buffet for my love, or bound my horse for her favors, I could lay on like a butcher.
Shak.
2. To make one's way by blows or struggling.
Strove to buffet to land in vain.
Tennyson.