Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To direct (a soldier) by a ticket or note where to lodge; hence, to quarter or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
- To be quartered; lodge: specifically applied to soldiers.
- noun A local English name of the coal-fish, especially when one year old.
- noun A small stick of wood; especially, a stick of wood cut for fuel.
- noun In heraldry, a bearing in the form of a small rectangle, usually set with the long sides vertical.
- noun In architecture: An ornament much used in early medieval work, consisting of an imitation of a wooden billet, or a small section of a rod, of which a series are placed at regular intervals in or upon a molding, usually a concave molding. See cut under
billet-molding . - noun A checker.
- noun A short strap used for connecting various straps and portions of a harness.
- noun A pocket or loop into which the end of a strap is inserted after passing through a buckle.
- noun A small bloom; a short bar of iron or steel, with a square section, and of smaller size than an ordinary “pile.”
- noun A small paper or note in writing; a short letter or document.
- noun A ticket given by a billet-master or other officer directing the person to whom it is addressed to provide board and lodging for the soldier bearing it.
- noun Hence The place where a soldier is lodged; lodging; accommodation.
- noun The place (marked by a numbered hammock-hook) assigned to each of the crew of a man-of-war for slinging his hammock.
- noun Hence A place, situation, position, or appointment: as, he is looking for a billet.
- noun A ballot or voting-paper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb (Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.
- noun A small paper; a note; a short letter.
- noun A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge.
- noun colloq. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig.
- noun A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
- noun (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
- noun (Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
- noun A strap which enters a buckle.
- noun A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.
- noun (Her.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A short
informal letter . - noun A
written order toquarter soldiers . - noun a place where a
soldier is assigned tolodge - verb of a householder, etc. to lodge soldiers, usually by
order - verb of a soldier to lodge, or be
quartered , in a private house - noun
metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal - noun a short piece of
wood , especially one used asfirewood - noun heraldry A
rectangle used as acharge on anescutcheon - noun architecture An
ornament inNorman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round. - noun A
strap which enters abuckle . - noun A
loop which receives the end of a buckledstrap .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short personal letter
- verb provide housing for (military personnel)
- noun a job in an organization
- noun lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
Etymologies
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Examples
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But poetry — do you know how Vaughn Marlow makes his living? — teaching in a boys 'cramming-joint down in Pennsylvania, and of all private little hells such a billet is the limit.
Chapter 32 2010
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- teaching in a boys 'cramming-joint down in Pennsylvania, and of all private little hells such a billet is the limit.
Chapter 32 1908
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I know, I know, the Teheran embassy wasn’t built in a day, but it still seems like Ross’s would-be billet is an odd bureaucratic entity.
Her Family And Friends Treated Him Like An Ambassador | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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No, you must play underhand with me, knowing that this billet was the one chance for me to get on my feet again.
Bunches of Knuckles 2010
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Peter had asked to take the lead shortly before the accident occurred and Scott was giving him a billet -- a billet is a climbers way of securing another climber to the mountain in case of a fall.
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My billet is a shelf space half a meter wide, half a meter deep, and just a trifle longer than I am-with other females brushing my elbows on each side of me.
Podkayne Of Mars Heinlein, Robert A. 1963
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The billet was a scrap on which was written only --
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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Our billet is a village with shell-scarred trees lining its streets, and grass peeping over its fallen masonry, a few inn signs still swing and look like corpses hanging; at night they creak as if in agony.
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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Behind our billet was the open country where Nature, the great mother, was busy; the butterflies flitted over the soldiers '(p. 262) graves, the grass grew over unburied dead men, who seemed to be sinking into the ground, apple trees threw out a wealth of blossom which the breezes flung broadcast to earth like young lives in the whirlwind of war.
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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Our billet was a farm just on the edge of the village.
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
bilby commented on the word billet
Please refrain from charging my escutcheon with your rectangle.
December 22, 2015