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 Buffalo Robe (A).Buffer (A). 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Buffer
 
of a railway carriage is an apparatus to rebuff or deaden the force of collision.   1
 


 Buffalo Robe (A).Buffer (A). 

 
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