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An English fish, allied to the cod; the coalfish.
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A short informal letter.
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A written order to quarter soldiers.
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A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
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An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
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Berth; position.
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(of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
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(of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
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To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
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A semi-finished length of metal.
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A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
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A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
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A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
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An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
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(saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
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A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
Examples of billets in a Sentence
Among manufactures are plate glass and bottles, table ware, paper, bricks, iron and steel articles, and steel sheets and billets.
Morgan for heating billets.
E, Magnesite bricks on which the M, The escaping products of comhot billets slide forward.
As soon as a hot billet A is withdrawn by pushing it endwise out of the exit door B, the whole row is pushed forward by a set of mechanical pushers C, the billets sliding on the raised water-cooled pipes D, and, in the hotter part of the furnace, on the magnesite bricks E, on which iron slides easily when red-hot.
To lessen the loss in shape of " crop ends," and for general economy, these billets are in some cases 30 ft.
It is to make it wide enough to receive such long billets that its roof is suspended, as here shown, by two sets of iron tie-rods.
When troops are distributed in small parties amongst the houses of a town or village, they are said to be in cantonments, which are also called quarters or billets.
Endeavor to find billets for No 1 in the afternoon and get wet through.
The works rolled steel billets from the 1930's to 1964.
Ashland has considerable river traffic, and various manufactures, including pig iron, nails, wire rods,, steel billets, sheet steel, dressed lumber (especially poplar), furniture, fire brick and leather.
If they regretted having to retreat, it was only because they had to leave billets they had grown accustomed to, or some pretty young Polish lady.