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Word: billet (lookup usage) (lookup stats)


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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