billet
- Noun. A short informal letter.
- Noun. A written order to quarter soldiers.
- Noun. a place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
- Verb. (context, of a householder etc) to lodge soldiers, usually by order.
- Verb. (context, of a soldier) to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
- Noun. metallurgy a semi-finished length of metal.
- Noun. a short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
- Noun. (heraldiccharge) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
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