LekhoriLekhoriSomeone or something that buffs (polishes and makes shiny).
A boxer.
Such a buffer as Donnelly, / Ereland never again will see.
Anything used to isolate or minimize the effect of one thing on another.
The chief boatswain's mate.
He decided to run for president of the POs' Mess against the Buffer, Chief Bosun's Mate Mal Crane, but the two had a face-to-face in his cabin one night in Narvik and sorted it out.
A good-humoured, slow-witted fellow, usually an elderly man.
Lastly, the looking-glass reflects Boots and Brewer, and two other stuffed Buffers interposed between the rest of the company and possible accidents.
A dog.
Who does not remember that adorable little dog, and that last Christmas season at Olympia, when the Whimmy we had all loved had been dead a month or so, and his buffer ran disconsolately round the circus, pining […]
Comparative form of buff: more buff.
To use a buffer or buffers; to isolate or minimize the effects of one thing on another.
The electronic apparatus is designed to buffer up the sorted wagons in the sidings at a speed not exceeding 4.7 m.p.h.—a particularly important provision in this yard, with its substantial traffic in whisky.
To store (data) in memory temporarily while it is awaiting processing.
A surname
Agent noun from obsolete verb buff (“make a dull sound when struck”) (mid-16c.), from Old French buffe (“blow”). The “boatswain's mate” sense is said to be popularly explained by the mate being a “buf...
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To maintain the acidity of a solution near a chosen value by adding an acid or a base.