Definitions for billet

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billet bil·let

Spelling: [bil-it]

IPA: /ˈbɪl ɪt/

Billet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 72 anagrams from letters in billet (beillt).

Definitions for billet

noun

1. lodging for a soldier, student, etc., as in a private home or nonmilitary public building.
2. Military. an official order, written or verbal, directing the person to whom it is addressed to provide such lodging.
3. a place assigned, as a bunk, berth, or the like, to a member of a ship's crew.
4. job; position; appointment.
5. Archaic. a written note, short letter, or the like.
6. a small chunk of wood; a short section of a log, especially one cut for fuel.
7. Metalworking. a comparatively narrow, generally square, bar of steel, especially one rolled or forged from an ingot; a narrow bloom.
8. an iron or steel slab upon concrete, serving as a footing to a column.
9. Architecture. any of a series of closely spaced cylindrical objects, often in several rows, used as ornaments in a hollow molding or cornice.
10. a strap that passes through a buckle, as to connect the ends of a girth.
11. a pocket or loop for securing the end of a strap that has been buckled.
12. thumbpiece.
13. Heraldry. a small, rectangular figure with the longer sides generally vertical, said to represent a block of wood.

verb (used with object)

1. Military. to direct (a soldier) by ticket, note, or verbal order, where to lodge.
2. to provide lodging for; quarter:

verb (used without object)

1. to obtain lodging; stay:

Origin of billet

1375-1425; late Middle English bylet, billett official register Anglo-French billette, Old French bullette, equivalent to bulle bill¹ + -ette Examples for billet

"I'm the person," said the Doctor, taking the billet and breaking the seal.

In support of his deposition he produced his billet de garde, dated the 8th.

He was delighted to have my billet, and embracing me, he thanked me a thousand times.

Remember I was twenty, and it was my first second mate's billet, and the East was waiting for me.

This obliged the Chevalier to write him a billet, which was rather laconic.

Yes—Mademoiselle had charged her to remit the billet to Monsieur.

From the beginning it had been battle-ground and billet of both armies a dozen times.

I smiled, I believe rather sarcastically, and opened the billet.

While we were still in England he and I used to share a billet.

You can billet me any old place—I don't care where you put me.