Brewer's: Baffle

To erase the cognisance of a recreant knight. To degrade a knight from his rank. To be knocked about by the winds.

“I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here.” Shakespeare: Richard II, act i. 1.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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