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noun
1.
lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
2.
Military. an official order, written or verbal, directing the person to whom it is addressed to provide such lodging.
3.
a place assigned, as a bunk, berth, or the like, to a member of a ship's crew.
4.
job; position; appointment.
5.
Archaic. a written note, short letter, or the like.
verb (used with object)
6.
Military. to direct (a soldier) by ticket, note, or verbal order, where to lodge.
7.
to provide lodging for; quarter: We arranged with the townspeople to billet the students.
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verb (used without object)
8.
to obtain lodging; stay: They billeted in youth hostels.
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- Army made it a command billet during postwar occupation.
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noun
1.
a small chunk of wood; a short section of a log, especially one cut for fuel.
2.
Metalworking. a comparatively narrow, generally square, bar of steel, especially one rolled or forged from an ingot; a narrow bloom.
3.
an iron or steel slab upon concrete, serving as a footing to a column.
4.
Architecture. any of a series of closely spaced cylindrical objects, often in several rows, used as ornaments in a hollow molding or cornice.
5.
EXPANDa strap that passes through a buckle, as to connect the ends of a girth.
6.
a pocket or loop for securing the end of a strap that has been buckled.
8.
COLLAPSEHeraldry. a small, rectangular figure with the longer sides generally vertical, said to represent a block of wood.
Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English bylet, bel(l)et < Anglo-French, Middle French billette, equivalent to bille log, tree trunk (< Gaulish *bilia tree trunk; compare Old Irish bile landmark tree) + -ette -ette
1400–50; late Middle English bylet, bel(l)et < Anglo-French, Middle French billette, equivalent to bille log, tree trunk (< Gaulish *bilia tree trunk; compare Old Irish bile landmark tree) + -ette -ette
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Word Origin & History
billet
1590s, "to assign quarters to," earlier, as a noun, "official record or register" (M.E.), from Anglo-Fr. billette "list, schedule," dim. of bille (see bill (1)).
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