billet

The definition of a billet is a place in a nonmilitary facility where soldiers live temporarily.

(noun)

When an ordinary citizen lets a soldier live in his house, this is an example of a billet.

To billet is defined as to provide temporary housing for soldiers in a non-military facility.

(verb)

When you open up your home and let a soldier live there temporarily, this is an example of a time when you billet.

See billet in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

Obsolete a brief document or letter
a written order to provide quarters or lodging for military personnel, as in private buildings
1. the quarters thus assigned or occupied
2. the sleeping place assigned to a sailor on ship
a position, job, or situation

Origin: ME < Anglo-Fr, dim. of bille, bill

transitive verb

intransitive verb

to be billeted or quartered

noun

1. a short, thick piece of firewood
2. Obsolete a wooden club
1. a long, rectangular or cylindrical unfinished bar of iron or steel, usually smaller than c. 232 sq cm (c. 36 sq in) in cross section
2. a similar, generally smaller, bar made from a nonferrous metal
Archit. a log-shaped insert in a Norman molding
Origin: ? < another source
Saddlery any of the straps used to fasten the saddletree to the girth

Origin: ME < OFr billette, dim. of bille < Gaul *bilia, tree trunk, akin to Ir bile, tree

See billet in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

a. Lodging for troops.
b. A written order directing that such lodging be provided.
A position of employment; a job.
Archaic A short letter; a note.

verb bil·let·ed, bil·let·ing, bil·lets

verb, transitive

a. To lodge (soldiers).
b. To serve (a person) with a written order to provide lodging for soldiers.
To assign lodging to.

verb, intransitive

To be quartered; lodge.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English, official register

Origin: , from Old French billette

Origin: , from bullette

Origin: , diminutive of bulle, document

Origin: , from Medieval Latin bulla, document, seal; see bill¹

noun

A short, thick piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
One of a series of regularly spaced, log-shaped segments used horizontally as ornamentation in the moldings of Norman architecture.
a. A small, usually rectangular bar of iron or steel in an intermediate stage of manufacture.
b. A small ingot of nonferrous metal.
a. The part of a harness strap that passes through a buckle.
b. A loop or pocket for securing the end of a buckled harness strap.

Origin:

Origin: Middle English

Origin: , from Old French billette

Origin: , diminutive of bille, log

Origin: , from Vulgar Latin *bilia

Origin: , possibly of Celtic origin

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