Billet vs Possie - What's the difference?

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Billet is a related term of possie.

As nouns the difference between billet and possie

is that billet is ticket while possie is a firing position.

billet

English

(wikipedia billet)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) bylet, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A short informal letter.

However, when his cool reflections returned, he plainly perceived that his case was neither mended nor altered by Sophia's billet

A written order to quarter soldiers.

Etymology 2

(etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)

A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.

* , chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets .}}

* 1997 : Chris Horrocks, Introducing Foucault , page 9 (Totem Books, Icon Books; ISBN 1840460865)

17 June 1940': Prime Minister Pétain requests armistice. Germans use the Foucaults’ holiday home as officers’ ' billet . Foucault steals firewood for school from collaborationist militia. Foucault does well at school, but messes up his summer exams in 1940.

An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=10 , passage=The skipper Mr. Cooke had hired at Far Harbor was a God-fearing man with a luke warm interest in his new billet and employer, and had only been prevailed upon to take charge of the yacht after the offer of an emolument equal to half a year's sea pay of an ensign in the navy.}}

Verb

To lodge soldiers, usually by order.

* (Washington Irving) (1783-1859)

Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.

To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.

(label) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.

Etymology 3

(etyl) billette, from ).

Noun

(en noun)

metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal

a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood

* Shakespeare

They shall beat out my brains with billets .

(heraldiccharge) 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 which enters a buckle.

A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

(Knight)

possie

English

Alternative forms

* pozzy

Noun

(en noun)

A firing position.

* 1990 , Matthew Kentridge, An unofficial war: inside the conflict in Pietermaritzburg

I'm just sitting in my possie , my place, waiting for something to happen.

* 2005 , Matthew Wright, Western front: the New Zealand Division in the first World War, 1916-18

'There is a beautiful odour in the possie where we are,' HG Clark wrote to his family...

* 2006 , Wesley Olson, Gallipoli: the Western Australian story

Away from the firing line, these possies and dugouts could be made larger...

(Australia, New Zealand, colloquial) A position or place, especially one that is advantageous.

* 1984 , Garrie Hutchinson, A Practice Game at the Old Home Ground'', from ''From the Outer'', reprinted 2001, David Headon (editor), ''The Best Ever Australian Sports Writing: A 200 Year Collection , page 289,

The fans seem happy to be back, finding their formerly favourite possies in the stands, or around the strangely sunken perimeter fence.

* 1998 , , Volume 20, Issues 47-49, page 102,

Of course, it helps if you are very rich and regularly pay more than $40,000 for a couture outfit to be guaranteed of a near-front-row possie at the bi-annual parades (winter and summer collections).

* 2009 , Andrew Bain, Ethan Gelber, Cycling Australia , Lonely Planet, page 346,

It?s in a good people-watching possie and if you have an early dinner between 3pm and 7pm you get a 40% discount.

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