buffer n.5
1. a pistol.
![[Scot]](/static/img/flags/sco.png "Scotland") | (con. 17C) Redgauntlet (1827) 130: ‘I see you are provided with arms.’ [...] ‘Ay, ay, sir; here be a pair of buffers will bite as well as bark.’. |
2. see bufe n.
1. a pistol.
| (con. 17C) Redgauntlet (1827) 130: ‘I see you are provided with arms.’ [...] ‘Ay, ay, sir; here be a pair of buffers will bite as well as bark.’. |
2. see bufe n.