buffet

A counter or sideboard from which food and drinks are served or may be bought.

Food laid out in this way, to which diners serve themselves.

A small stool; a stool for a buffet or counter.

A blow or cuff with or as if with the hand, or by any other solid object or the wind.

To strike with a buffet; to cuff; to slap.

To aggressively challenge, denounce, or criticise.

To affect as with blows; to strike repeatedly; to strive with or contend against.

“to buffet the billows”

To deaden the sound of (bells) by muffling the clapper.

A low stool; a hassock.