billet
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Is billet a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (figurative) Berth; position.Examples: "His shafts of satire fly straight to their billet, and there they rankle."figuratively
verb (English)
1. (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.Examples: "Billeted in so antiquated a mansion."; "Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]"transitive
2. (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.intransitive
3. (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.transitive
noun (English)
1. (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.Examples: "The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets."
2. (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
3. (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
4. (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
Definition source: Wiktionary