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Word: billet
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Meaning:
Noun:
- a place where a soldier is assigned to lodge
- A short informal letter.
- a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood
- A written order to quarter soldiers.
- heraldiccharge A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon
- metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal
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Verb:
- of a householder etc to lodge soldiers, usually by order
- of a soldier to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house
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