单词 | billet |
释义 | billetn.1 a. A short written document; a small paper, notice, or note; a label. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > [noun] > piece or quantity of > small piece of billetc1440 1317 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum I. 654 Secundum quod continetur in quadam billetta inter sigillum & scriptum ante consignationem affixa.] c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 36 Bylet, scrowe [v.r. Bille], matricula. 1495 Act 11 Hen. VII c.10 §2 Acquietaunce, writynges, billes, or billettis, wherby it may appere..[that] the seid Commyssioners..have receyved the somme. 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. iv. 142 Thei caried vppon their foreheades..pretie billettes of Paper..these were called their Philacteries. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > meal > menu > [noun] billet1577 fillet1587 bill of farea1640 carte1818 menu1830 beef chit1911 me-and-you1932 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xv. 272 Which bill [of dishes] some doo call a memoriall, other a billet. 2. spec. A short informal letter, a ‘note’. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [noun] > short letter or note schedule1397 billet1579 breviate1596 notea1616 line1647 letterling1781 letteret1799 letterlet1812 notelet1823 epistolet1824 notekin1861 1579 G. Fenton tr. F. Guicciardini Hist. Guicciardin v. 284 Writing to him billettes and letters full of office and humanitie. 1704 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion III. x. 58 The King..receiv'd little Billets, or Letters..without any Name, which advertised him of wicked designs upon his life. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 306. ⁋2 The Lady..writ this Billet to her Lover. 1807 T. Jefferson Corr. (1830) 78 Once in a winter, he usually wrote him a billet of invitation to dine. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 49 Carrying billets backward and forward between his patron and the ugliest maids of honour. 1876 C. Merivale Rom. Triumvirates viii. 166 They thrust billets into his hand, inscribed ‘Brutus, thou sleepest.’ ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > permission > [noun] > document which permits or authorizes > ticket > for free use or admission free pass1653 billet1697 order1763 paper1785 pass1838 courtesy card1934 1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 33 Although I had a Pasport..I was oblig'd to take a Billet from the Toll-House. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris App. p. lxiii The conductor examined the billets of admission [to the catacombs]. 1823 C. Lamb My First Play in Elia 222 A pretty liberal issue of those cheap billets, in Brinsley's easy autograph. 4. Military. a. An official order requiring the person to whom it is addressed to provide board and lodging for the soldier bearing it. (The ordinary modern sense.) Hence billet-master n. the official whose duty it is to make out billets. billet-money n. the cost of quartering soldiers; also figurative every bullet has its billet (i.e. its destination assigned): only those are killed whose death Providence has ordained. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > order to provide lodging for soldier bullet1612 billet1640 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > [noun] > expenses > of quartering soldiers billet-money1640 the mind > will > necessity > fate or destiny as determining events > [noun] > that which is ordained by fate > fated destination of a bullet billet1765 1640–4 King's Speech in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 614 That which is owing to this County for Billet-Money. 1644 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) II. 649 That no Billet shall be granted upon any of the Inhabitants without their consent. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6152/3 His Officers and Soldiers; who were by those Billets dispersed into Quarters in several Parts of the Town. 1765 J. Wesley Jrnl. 6 June He never received one wound. So true is the odd saying of King William, that ‘every bullet has its billet.’ 1811 Duke of Wellington Let. 24 July in Dispatches (1838) VIII. 140 A Billet is a legal order from a competent authority to the person to whom it is addressed to provide lodging for the bearer of it. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xix. 192 It is an established axiom, that ‘every bullet has its billet’. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiii. [Nausicaa] 356 The ball rolled down to her as if it understood. Every bullet has its billet. b. A place in which a soldier is billeted; a soldier's lodging or quarters. Also gen., spec. in the war of 1939–45, quarters assigned to civilian evacuees. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > [noun] > quarters lodging1475 quarter1570 allodgement1598 lodgement1598 cantonment1756 billet1830 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > accommodation or lodging > [noun] > quarters > of evacuees billet1946 1830 E. S. N. Campbell Dict. Mil. Sci. 26 Any Justice may, at the request of the Officer or Non-commissioned Officer commanding any Soldiers requiring Billets, extend the Routes or enlarge the District within which Billets shall be required. 1858 Billets & Bivouacs 246 Thou long-suffering reader,..tarry with me yet a moment in the last billet we shall ever share together—my dark abode on the dreary shores of Old Father Thames. 1875 Encycl. Brit. II. 571/2 The army lived in barracks, camps, or billets. 1919 P. G. Wodehouse Damsel in Distress vii So George took up his abode..in the plainly-furnished but not uncomfortable cottage... He might have found a worse billet. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 161 Getting harder to find billets, particularly since the anti-aircraft battery had come to South Grappling. 1946 A. Phelps I couldn't care Less xv. 120 I sought out the billet that had been arranged for me. I am not a good billettee. 1968 A. Sillitoe in B. S. Johnson Evacuees 238 We were allotted to four different houses, and taken by car to our separate billets. c. transferred. An appointment, post, or ‘berth’. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > position or job > [noun] steadc1000 noteOE officec1300 ministry?a1475 rooma1485 placea1500 roomth1544 place1558 post1562 berth1720 situation1766 job1781 sit1853 spot1859 billet1870 engagement1884 shop1885 gig1908 lurk1916 possie1916 number1928 site1930 sits vac1945 hat1966 1870 Cassell's Mag. II. 58/1 The private..doesn't see why..he should give up his billet as pioneer or canteen waiter. 1887 ‘Hopeful’ Taken in 135 If you are out of work, or out of a situation, as we say, here [i.e. in N. Zealand] it is called ‘out of billet’. 1890 E. W. Hornung Bride from Bush xvii If ever she went back to Australia, she'd remember my young man, and get him a good billet. 1890 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. XLV. 384 A billet as clerk in the recruiting rendezvous. 1941 S. J. Baker Pop. Dict. Austral. Slang 10 Billet, a position or job. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [noun] > means of signifying choice > voting-paper bullet1615 billet1627 proxy1660 policy1670 ballot1710 scrutiny1728 voting paper1815 ballot paper1818 onion skin1879 1627 W. Duncomb tr. V. d'Audiguier Tragi-comicall Hist. our Times ix. 195 Three billets were made with their three names which were all put into a cask. c1690 Lauderdale Speech in Mackenzie Mem. 85 Some Republicks use the Billet, or the Ballot, in giving places. a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) 450 That..unjust, unreasonable, and illegal Act of Billets. 1781 J. Moore View Soc. Italy (1790) I. xi. 121 Each elector..throws a little billet into an urn..On this billet is inscribed the person's name. 6. A bank-note. [French; used by Carlyle for local colouring.] ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > medium of exchange or currency > paper money > [noun] > a banknote bank bill1682 bill1682 note1695 money bill1713 banknote1759 post-note1788 screen1789 stiff1823 flimsy1824 shin-plaster1824 billet1837 pennif1862 toadskin1867 currency note1891 dead president1944 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. v. iii. 235 Billets of a new National Bank. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). billetn.2 1. a. A thick piece of wood cut to a suitable length for fuel. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] > cut to a certain size wood-tale1235 tosard1336 talwood1350 staff-shide1411 billetc1440 talshide1444 cord-wood1638 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 36 Bylet, schyde, tedula. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 36 Surely many stickes together, burne more vehemently, then a single Billet. 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. ii. 133 Some of our men..were put upon cutting down trees, and splitting them into billets. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. v. 377 He slept on the ground, or on the hard floor, with a billet of wood for his pillow. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] woodc888 trouse978 stickc1175 spray1297 spraya1300 firewood1377 lopc1420 billet1465 buchette1507 bag-wood1525 bavin1573 brushment1591 brushwood1616 burning-wood1642 firebote1661 chump1680 lop-wood1693 brush1699 burn-wood1701 lightwood1705 shravel1732 billet-wood1759 hedge-wood1785 pine knot1791 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 482 Payd fore a cartfulle of belet at Eltam, ijs. viijd. 1559 Seconde Volume of Fabians Chronicle in Chronicle of Fabian (new ed.) sig. ZZ.v The maior..solde to the poore people billet and faggot, by the peniworthe. 1642 King Charles I in Let. Student Oxf. 1 Where..was fuell and billet enough. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 27 The smaller trunchions..make billet, bavine, and coals. ΚΠ c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxiiijv/2 Item that euery esex belet of one [shide] contayn in lengith with the carf iij. fote and half of assise and in gretnes in ye middes, xv. ynches. 1542–3 Act 34 & 35 Hen. VIII iii The vntrewe lengthe and quantitie of faggotte talwood, and billette. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha i. xxi. 200 Anye one Iustice of Peace, is warranted to sette on the Pillorie..any person that hath broken the Assise of Fewell, and is conuicted thereof, and not able to pay the forfeiture, there to be at eleauen of the clocke uppon the Market daye, wyth a Billet or Fagot bounde to some parte of hys body. 2. A (thick) stick used as a weapon. †single billet n. single stick. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] sowelc893 treec893 cudgelc897 stinga900 bat?c1225 sticka1275 clubc1275 truncheon14.. bourdonc1325 bastona1400 warderera1400 plantc1400 kibble1411 playloomc1440 hurlbatc1450 ploykc1450 rung1491 libberlac1500 waster1533 batonc1550 macana1555 libbet1562 bastinado1574 crab-tree comb1593 tomahawkc1612 billeta1616 wiper1622 batoon1637 gibbeta1640 crab-bat1647 kibbo1688 Indian club1694 batterdasher1696 crab-stick1703 bloodwipea1705 bludgeon1730 kierie1731 oaken towel1739 crab1740 shillelagh1772 knobstick1783 pogamogganc1788 whirlbat1791 nulla-nulla1798 waddy1800 kevel1807 supple1815 mere1820 hurlet1825 knobkerrie1826 blackthorn1829 bastera1833 twig1842 leangle1845 alpeen1847 banger1849 billy1856 thwack-stave1857 clump1868 cosh1869 nulla1878 sap1899 waddy1899 blunt instrument1923 a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iv. iii. 52 Or they shall beat out my braines with billets . View more context for this quotation a1625 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Captaine ii. i, in Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Gg3/1 Fighting at single billet with a Barge-man. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela I. xxxi. 234 Nan..was taking up a Billet to knock me on the Head.] 3. A small bar of metal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > precious metal > [noun] > gold or silver > in the lump > ingot of wedgec900 ingot1423 barc1595 billet1670 wafer1974 1353 Act 27 Edw. III ii. §14 Plate dargent, billettes dor et tut autre maner dor.] 1670 T. Blount Νομο-λεξικον: Law-dict. Billets of Gold, Wedges or Ingots of Gold. b. Of iron or steel: see quot. 1881. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > iron > [noun] > bar of iron bar1753 billet1881 society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > steel > [noun] > bar or pig of steel billet1881 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 108 Billet 1. Iron or steel, drawn from a pile, bloom, or ingot, into a small bar for further manufacture. 2. A small bloom. 1883 Daily News 8 Oct. 2/5 In Bessemer steel..hoops and billets are somewhat easier to buy. 4. Architecture. An ornamental moulding used in Norman architecture, consisting of short cylindrical pieces placed lengthwise at regular intervals in hollow mouldings; sometimes in two or more rows, breaking joint. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings bowtell1376 crownwork1594 protypum1601 chaplet1623 bandeleta1645 bedding-moulding1664 quadra1664 surbase1678 platband1696 bed-moulding1703 eyebrow1703 square1703 gorge1706 nerve1728 heel1734 quirk-moulding1776 star1781 bead1799 rope moulding1813 zigzag1814 chevron-moulding1815 nebule1823 billet1835 dancette1838 pellet moulding1838 vignette moulding1842 bird's beak moulding1845 beak-head ornament1848 beak-head1849 billet moulding1851 beading1858 bead-work1881 Venetian dentil1892 chevron-work- 1835 T. Hope Hist. Ess. Archit. (1840) I. xiii. 139 Never extended beyond the jejune form of the lozenge..or the zig-zag, and the billet. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xiii. 980 Observe the singular billet patterns on the arches. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 69 Their billet ornamentation and its chequered shade. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 86 The chamfers of a string or label relieved with the billet or short piece of roll left projecting from them at intervals. 1926 R. Glazier Man. Hist. Ornament (ed. 4) 45 Later Norman work is very rich, the mouldings being well carved with..the Chevron,..Billet,..or Key Patterns. 5. plural. The excrements of a fox. (cf. billeting n. 3). 6. [The following senses belong doubtfully to this or to billet n.1] Heraldry. A bearing of the shape of a rectangle placed on end. (Variously conjectured by early writers to represent a folded letter, a brick, and cloth of gold.) ΚΠ 1592 W. Wyrley Capitall de Buz in True Vse Armorie 153 A siluer fes 'tween many billets gold. 1632 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 2) iv. v. 284 This Billet, in Armory is taken for a paper folded vp in forme of a letter. 1724 Guillim's Display of Heraldrie (ed. 6) (Dict.) Billets... Tresor Heraldique says, most Authors take them for Bricks. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Billets..were antiently Pieces of Cloth of Gold, or Silver. 1858 C. M. Yonge Cameos xlvi, in Monthly Packet May 470 The eleven argent billets on their azure shield. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > upright rectangle billet1548 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxix .xii. persones all ridyng on coursers barded and apparelled in white Sattin and blacke, broched with gold and siluer, with cuttes and culpynes muche after tawny and blacke Sattin billottes. a1624 G. Wyatt Life Anne Boleigne (1817) 15 So many cros billets of conninge polities surmounted by the guidinge providence of God. 8. Saddlery. a. A strap which enters a buckle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > strap > types of billet1481 tab1607 bale-sling1883 1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. 195 Ij. peyr of brode reynys, and ij. new bellet-thongs. b. A pocket or loop which receives the end of a buckled strap. ΚΠ 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 152 Tassels, plated buckles, and leather billets. 1794 W. Felton Treat. Carriages I. 153 The tassel and the billet and buckle to complete it, is also 3s. Compounds C1. General attributive. billet-dealer n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in timber wooderc1050 woodmonger1261 woodman1426 timberman1429 wood-maker1616 billet-dealera1625 mahogany trade1850 a1625 J. Fletcher Noble Gentleman iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Ee2/1 Ther's not the least of the billet dealers,..But have it in measure delicate. billet-wood n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > fuel > wood as fuel > [noun] woodc888 trouse978 stickc1175 spray1297 spraya1300 firewood1377 lopc1420 billet1465 buchette1507 bag-wood1525 bavin1573 brushment1591 brushwood1616 burning-wood1642 firebote1661 chump1680 lop-wood1693 brush1699 burn-wood1701 lightwood1705 shravel1732 billet-wood1759 hedge-wood1785 pine knot1791 1759 B. Martin Nat. Hist. Eng. II. Norf. 70 A Fire of clean Billet-wood. 1772 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 90 Billet-wood for fewel. C2. billet-head n. a piece of wood at the bow of a whale-boat, round which the harpoon line runs; also ‘a carved prow bending in and out, contrariwise to the fiddle-head (scroll-head)’ Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > carved plank at stem trail-board1704 fiddle-head1799 billet-head1840 tail-board1841 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxxv. 134 The cornucopia which ornamented her billet-head. billet mill n. (see quot. 1910). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places for working with specific materials > place for working with metal > [noun] > iron or steel iron mill1518 ironwork1581 billet mill1910 spray steelmaker1966 1910 H. P. Tiemann Iron & Steel 282 Billets, blooms, small slabs, and sheet bars are produced on a mill called a billet mill, blooming mill, or cogging mill. 1958 Times 7 Jan. 15/1 The billet mill should be completed before the end of the current financial year. billet moulding n. = 4. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > other mouldings bowtell1376 crownwork1594 protypum1601 chaplet1623 bandeleta1645 bedding-moulding1664 quadra1664 surbase1678 platband1696 bed-moulding1703 eyebrow1703 square1703 gorge1706 nerve1728 heel1734 quirk-moulding1776 star1781 bead1799 rope moulding1813 zigzag1814 chevron-moulding1815 nebule1823 billet1835 dancette1838 pellet moulding1838 vignette moulding1842 bird's beak moulding1845 beak-head ornament1848 beak-head1849 billet moulding1851 beading1858 bead-work1881 Venetian dentil1892 chevron-work- 1851 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice I. xxiv. 268 What is called the Norman billet moulding. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). billetn.3 A coal-fish, when one year old. Cf. billard n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > class Osteichthyes or Teleostomi > superorder Paracanthopterygii > order Gadiformes (cod) > [noun] > family Gadidae > pollachius virens (coal-fish) lob-keelingc1325 coalfish1337 lob1357 pollack1427 gull-fish1583 saithe1632 colmey1654 billard1661 rawlin pollack1673 sey-pollack1698 blackmouth1703 billet1769 greenback1772 green cod1776 glossan1780 stenlock179. harbin1806 coalsey1829 rock salmon1831 rauning pollack1835 green pollack1859 coaly1915 1769 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) III. iv. 153 They [sc. the fry of the coalfish] are called at Scarborough Parrs, and when a year old, Billets. 1832 J. Cole Scarborough Guide 108 The principal fish..for sale are..parr, billits, cole fish. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 10 Mounted Lines for..Billet, and all surface fish. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). billetv.ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > list > [verb (transitive)] > enter in list billc1305 enrolc1350 putc1436 rollc1440 inbill1461 book1548 cataloguize1609 billet1610 enschedulea1616 catalogize1632 catalogue1635 list1658 schedule1862 handlist1888 1610 R. Hill Pathway to Prayer (ed. 4) Pref. sig. A6 Blessed and billeted vp be they in heauen. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) iv. iii. 42 The Centurions, and their charges distinctly billetted..and to be on foot at an houres warning. View more context for this quotation 1618 Declar. Demeanor Sir W. Raleigh 28 Hee billited the sayd Pioners for seuerall ships. 2. a. To assign quarters to (soldiers) by a note or ticket; to quarter (troops) in, at, on, upon, with. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > quarter (troops) [verb (transitive)] furry1579 quarter1588 billet1599 cantonize1626 enquarter1642 canton1700 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 6 For ten weeks together this rabble rout..are billetted with her. a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. iii. 370 Goe where thou art billited . View more context for this quotation 1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 33 They refused to suffer the Soldiers to be billetted upon them. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. i. 85 Companies of soldiers were billeted on the people. b. gen. To assign or appoint quarters to; to locate. (With 1837 cf. billet n.1 4) spec., in the war of 1939–45, to assign quarters to (civilian evacuees). Frequently const. on. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation > place in temporary accommodation quarter1588 billet1605 to put in (also to) pension?1605 cantonize1626 board1655 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 490 In what bright starrie Signe, th' Almighty dread, Dayes Princely Planet daily billeted. 1650 R. Gell Αγγελοκρατια Θεου 15 We finde the twelve Tribes..billeted according to the four Quarters of heaven. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xix. 192 Shots..cast loose upon the world, and billeted nowhere. 1939 Punch 6 Dec. 631/3 It was when you first heard that little Sidney and the others were to be billeted on you. 1942 E. Waugh Put out More Flags iii. 165 Wait till the gentleman billets you. 1955 Times 2 Aug. 8/6 I dimly recognized one of the children who had been billeted on us during the wartime evacuation, and who had gone back to London 10 years ago. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > providing with dwelling > [verb (transitive)] > provide with temporary accommodation innOE harbourc1150 gestena1300 guestc1330 hostelc1330 receivec1384 sojourn1390 harbry14.. shroudc1450 bestow1577 accommodate1592 board1600 quarter1603 stow1607 to put up1635 billet1637 lodge1741 room1840 to fix (a person) up1889 summer-board1889 shack1927 1637 F. Quarles Elegie upon J. Wheeler 1 Sorrow is the Guest Which I must entertaine, and billet in my brest. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabiting temporarily > [verb (intransitive)] liec1000 harbourc1200 sojournc1290 layc1300 sojourc1330 to make, take (up) one's lodging1362 pilgrimagea1382 bield?a1400 lodgec1400 tarryc1400 to make (one's) residence1433 harbingec1475 harbry1513 stay1554 roost?1555 embower1591 quarter1591 leaguer1596 allodge1601 tenta1616 visit1626 billet1628 to lie abroad1650 tabernacle1653 sojourney1657 canton1697 stop1797 to shake down1858 to hole up1875 perendinate1886 shack1935 cotch1950 1628 in Parr's Lett. 400 He billets in my lodgings. 4. transitive. To serve (a person) with a billet. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > logistics > quartering > quarter (troops) [verb (transitive)] > order to provide lodging for soldier billet1834 1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. v. 70 ‘Conscripts!’ said the woman of the house..‘I am billetted full already.’ ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > give (a vote) [verb (transitive)] > vote secretly upon ballot1549 billeta1691 to ballot for1695 a1691 G. Mackenzie Mem. Affairs Scotl. (1821) 75 Lauderdale..askt the King, ‘What if they billet me, Sir?’.. Then Lauderdale told him that he was billeted. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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