To direct (a soldier) by a ticket or note where to lodge; hence, to quarter or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

To be quartered; lodge: specifically applied to soldiers.

noun. A local English name of the coal-fish, especially when one year old.

noun. A small stick of wood; especially, a stick of wood cut for fuel.

noun. In heraldry, a bearing in the form of a small rectangle, usually set with the long sides vertical.

noun. In architecture: An ornament much used in early medieval work, consisting of an imitation of a wooden billet, or a small section of a rod, of which a series are placed at regular intervals in or upon a molding, usually a concave molding. See cut under billet-molding.

noun. A checker.

noun. A short strap used for connecting various straps and portions of a harness.

noun. A pocket or loop into which the end of a strap is inserted after passing through a buckle.

noun. A small bloom; a short bar of iron or steel, with a square section, and of smaller size than an ordinary “pile.”

noun. A small paper or note in writing; a short letter or document.

noun. A ticket given by a billet-master or other officer directing the person to whom it is addressed to provide board and lodging for the soldier bearing it.

noun. Hence The place where a soldier is lodged; lodging; accommodation.

noun. The place (marked by a numbered hammock-hook) assigned to each of the crew of a man-of-war for slinging his hammock.

noun. Hence A place, situation, position, or appointment: as, he is looking for a billet.

noun. A ballot or voting-paper.

transitive verb. To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.

noun. A small paper; a note; a short letter.

noun. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge.

noun. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig.

noun. A small stick of wood, as for firewood.

noun. A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.

noun. An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

noun. undefined

noun. A strap which enters a buckle.

noun. A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

noun. A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle.

noun. A short informal letter.

noun. A written order to quarter soldiers.

noun. a place where a soldier is assigned to lodge

verb. to lodge soldiers, usually by order

verb. to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house

noun. metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal

noun. a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood

noun. A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon

noun. An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.

noun. A strap which enters a buckle.

noun. A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

noun. a short personal letter

verb. provide housing for (military personnel)

noun. a job in an organization

noun. lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)

"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."

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