buffeting
noun1
A blow or motion that buffets.
- Though still early in the afternoon, the ceaseless buffetings of a most tempestuous wind made us feel weary […]1907, Algernon Blackwood, The Willows:
- He suspected it was mainly for this that he married her, to be his shield against the world’s buffetings.2008 April 27, Benjamin Black, “The Lemur”, in New York Times:
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Aeronautics, Aerospace, Aviation, Business, Engineering, Natural sciences, Physical sciences random, irregular motion of the plane or of one of its parts caused by turbulences in the airflow