'Billet' definitions:
Definition of 'billet'
(from WordNet)
noun
A short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there" [syn: note, short letter, line, billet]
noun
Lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)
noun
A job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury" [syn: position, post, berth, office, spot, billet, place, situation]
verb
Definition of 'Billet'
From: GCIDE
- Billet \Bil"let\, n. [F. billet, dim. of an OF. bille bill. See Bill a writing.]
- 1. A small paper; a note; a short letter. "I got your melancholy billet." --Sterne. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Quarters or place to which one is assigned, as by a billet or ticket; berth; position. Also used fig. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- The men who cling to easy billets ashore. --Harper's Mag. [1913 Webster]
- His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle. --Pall Mall Mag. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Billet'
From: GCIDE
- Billet \Bil"let\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Billeted; p. pr. & vb. n. Billeting.] [From Billet a ticket.] (Mil.) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge. Hence: To quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses. [1913 Webster]
- Billeted in so antiquated a mansion. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Billet'
From: GCIDE
- Billet \Bil"let\, n. [F. billette, bille, log; of unknown origin; a different word from bille ball. Cf. Billiards, Billot.]
- 1. A small stick of wood, as for firewood. [1913 Webster]
- They shall beat out my brains with billets. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Metal.) A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Arch.) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Saddlery) (a) A strap which enters a buckle. (b) A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. --Knight. [1913 Webster]
- 5. (Her.) A bearing in the form of an oblong rectangle. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'billet'
From: GCIDE
- Billard \Bil"lard\, n. (Zool.) An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish. [Written also billet and billit.] [1913 Webster] Billbeetle
Synonyms of 'billet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- achievement,
- acknowledgment,
- alerion,
- anchor,
- animal charge,
- annulet,
- answer,
- appointment,
- argent,
- armorial bearings,
- armory,
- arms,
- azure,
- bandeau,
- bar,
- bar sinister,
- baton,
- beam,
- bearings,
- bed,
- bend,
- bend sinister,
- berth,
- bestow,
- billet at,
- bivouac,
- blazon,
- blazonry,
- board,
- boarding,
- bordure,
- broad arrow,
- bunk,
- burrow,
- business letter,
- cadency mark,
- camp,
- canton,
- chaplet,
- charge,
- chevron,
- chief,
- chit,
- clapboard,
- coat of arms,
- cockatrice,
- colonize,
- come to anchor,
- communication,
- connection,
- cord,
- cordwood,
- coronet,
- crescent,
- crest,
- cross,
- cross moline,
- crown,
- deal,
- device,
- difference,
- differencing,
- dispatch,
- domesticate,
- domicile,
- domiciliate,
- driftwood,
- drop anchor,
- eagle,
- employment,
- engagement,
- ensconce,
- entertain,
- epistle,
- ermine,
- ermines,
- erminites,
- erminois,
- escutcheon,
- establish residence,
- falcon,
- favor,
- fess,
- fess point,
- field,
- file,
- firewood,
- flanch,
- fleur-de-lis,
- fret,
- fur,
- fusil,
- garland,
- gig,
- griffin,
- gules,
- gyron,
- harbor,
- hardwood,
- hatchment,
- helmet,
- heraldic device,
- hive,
- honor point,
- house,
- hut,
- impalement,
- impaling,
- incumbency,
- inescutcheon,
- ingot,
- inhabit,
- job,
- keep house,
- label,
- lath,
- lathing,
- lathwork,
- letter,
- line,
- lion,
- live at,
- locate,
- lodge,
- log,
- lozenge,
- lumber,
- mantling,
- marshaling,
- martlet,
- mascle,
- message,
- metal,
- missive,
- moonlighting,
- moor,
- motto,
- move,
- mullet,
- nest,
- nombril point,
- note,
- octofoil,
- office,
- opening,
- or,
- ordinary,
- orle,
- pale,
- paly,
- panelboard,
- paneling,
- panelwork,
- park,
- pean,
- people,
- perch,
- pheon,
- place,
- plank,
- planking,
- plyboard,
- plywood,
- pole,
- populate,
- position,
- post,
- puncheon,
- purpure,
- put up,
- quarter,
- quartering,
- relocate,
- reply,
- rescript,
- reside,
- rod,
- room,
- roost,
- rose,
- sable,
- saltire,
- scutcheon,
- second job,
- service,
- set up housekeeping,
- set up shop,
- settle,
- settle down,
- shake,
- sheathing,
- sheathing board,
- sheeting,
- shelter,
- shield,
- shingle,
- sideboard,
- siding,
- sit down,
- situation,
- slab,
- slat,
- softwood,
- splat,
- spot,
- spread eagle,
- squat,
- stable,
- stand,
- station,
- stave,
- stay at,
- stick,
- stick of wood,
- stovewood,
- strike root,
- strip,
- subordinary,
- take residence at,
- take root,
- take up residence,
- tenne,
- tenure,
- three-by-four,
- timber,
- timbering,
- timberwork,
- tincture,
- torse,
- tressure,
- two-by-four,
- unicorn,
- vacancy,
- vair,
- vert,
- weatherboard,
- wood,
- wreath,
- yale