pluck-buffet

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The king and Robin Hood rode together, and they shot "pluck-buffet" as they went by the way -- that is to say, whoever missed the mark at which he aimed was to receive a buffet from the other; many a buffet the king won from Robin Hood, and good Robin spared nothing of his pay.

The Junior Classics — Volume 4 William Patten 1902
GLOSS: pluck-buffet] app a competition between archers, in which he who missed or failed caught a buffet from his competitor (N. E.

A Little Geste of Robin Hood and his Meiny. The Eighth Fytte 1910
Hood, "they shot at" pluck-buffet, "the king among them, disguised as an abbot; and every man who missed the rose-garland," his tackle he should tyne "; --

Hereward, the Last of the English Charles Kingsley 1847