billet

IPA: bˈɪɫʌt

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.]

(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.

Examples of "billet" in Sentences

Apparatus for rotating a billet.
The resulting billet is then hot worked.
The main type of accommodation are billet.
It is not an offical billet but a tactical role.
There is an billet in Waltham Hall for a footman...
A discharge discharges the billets from the harvester.
Fungicide is sprayed on the billets carried by the elevator.
He commanded the American forces in the Battle of Crooked Billet.
In the induction billet heater, the whole of the billet or slug is heated.
Ball was unhappy with the hygiene of his assigned billet in the nearest village.