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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The billet was a scrap on which was written only --
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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.
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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.
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Our billet was a farm just on the edge of the village.
bilby commented on the word billet
Please refrain from charging my escutcheon with your rectangle.
December 22, 2015