Baffling Synonyms & Definitions

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• BafflingDefinition & Meaning in English

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Baffle
(a.) Frustrating; discomfiting; disconcerting; as, baffling currents, winds, tasks.

• BaffleDefinition & Meaning in English

(v. t.) To cause to undergo a disgraceful punishment, as a recreant knight.
(v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.
(v. i.) To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
(v. t.) To check by perplexing; to disconcert, frustrate, or defeat; to thwart.
(n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture.
(v. i.) To practice deceit.
(n.) A lever for operating the throttle valve of a winding engine.
(n.) A deflector, as a plate or wall, so arranged across a furnace or boiler flue as to mingle the hot gases and deflect them against the substance to be heated.
(n.) A grating or plate across a channel or pipe conveying water, gas, or the like, by which the flow is rendered more uniform in different parts of the cross section of the stream; -- used in measuring the rate of flow, as by means of a weir.