noun

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

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

transitive verb

1. to assign to lodging by billet
2. to assign to a post
3. to serve a billet on

intransitive verb

noun

1. 1. a short, thick piece of firewood
   2. Obsolete a wooden club
2. 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
3. Archit. a log-shaped insert in a Norman molding

4. Etymology: ? < another source

   Saddlery any of the straps used to fasten the saddletree to the girth

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