Noun

(en noun)

A short informal letter.

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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.

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.

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, 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.}}

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)