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billetn.1

/ˈbɪlɪt/
Forms: Middle English bylet, Middle English–1500s billette, 1500s billot, billotte, 1600s bullet, 1500s– billet.
Etymology: Middle English and Anglo-Norman billette, Anglo Latin billetta , diminutive of billa , bille , bill n.3 (But billete occurs also in continental Old French, apparently as a variant of bullete, in medieval Latin bulletta, diminutive of Latin bulla; and this may have contributed to the English form.)See other senses which may belong here, at the end of billet n.2
†1. gen.
a. A short written document; a small paper, notice, or note; a label. Obsolete.
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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.
†b. A bill of fare. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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.’
†3. A written permission to enter a theatre, public place, etc.; an order, a pass. Obsolete or archaic.
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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.
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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.
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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’.
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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.
†5. A voting-paper used in voting by ballot. Act of Billets (Scottish Parliament 1662): a measure by which the twelve persons excepted from the King's Indemnity were to be chosen by secret voting.
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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.]
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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

Forms: Middle English bellet, Middle English bilet, Middle English bylet, Middle English–1500s belet, Middle English–1500s billette, Middle English– billet, 1500s billotte, 1500s byllet, 1700s billot.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French billette.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman bilet, billet, Anglo-Norman and Middle French billette, billete (French billette ) wooden peg (13th cent. in Anglo-Norman), (as collective noun or in plural) firewood, logs (14th cent.) < Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French bille stick, piece of wood, trunk of a tree (13th cent. or earlier; of uncertain origin, perhaps ultimately a borrowing from a Celtic language) + -ette -ette suffix (compare also -et suffix1).With forms in -ot compare -ot suffix and Middle French, French billot block of wood (14th cent.). Compare also post-classical Latin billettum piece of wood, firewood (from late 13th cent. in British sources). Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbillet.
1.
a. A thick piece of wood cut to a suitable length for fuel.
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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.
†b. collective. Wood so cut for fuel; billet-wood. Obsolete.
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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.
†c. Fire-wood of size regulated by law. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
†a. A ‘bar’ or ingot of gold or silver. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
†7. transferred and figurative. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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billetn.3

Forms: Also billit.
Etymology: perhaps a corruption of billard n.; perhaps the correct form, and identical with billet n.2Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈbillet.
A coal-fish, when one year old. Cf. billard n. 1.
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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.
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billetv.

/ˈbɪlɪt/
Forms: Also 1600s billit, billett. Past tense and participle billeted.
Etymology: < billet n.1
†1. transitive. To enter in a list; to enrol. Obsolete.
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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.
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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.
†c. To give quarters to, lodge. Obsolete.
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.
†3. intransitive (for reflexive). To have quarters. Obsolete. rare.
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.’
†5. To select by billet (see billet n.1 5); to ballot. Obsolete.
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.
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