billet
IPA: bˈɪɫʌt
noun
- A short informal letter.
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
- A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
- An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
- (figurative) Berth; position.
- (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
- A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
- (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
- (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
- (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
- A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
- Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”) [(obsolete) A coalfish, especially a young one.]
verb
- (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
- (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
- (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
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Examples of "billet" in Sentences
- The billet was a scrap on which was written only --
- Our billet was a farm just on the edge of the village.
- No, you must play underhand with me, knowing that this billet was the one chance for me to get on my feet again.
- - teaching in a boys 'cramming-joint down in Pennsylvania, and of all private little hells such a billet is the limit.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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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