[ˈbɪlɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a place, especially a civilian's house, where soldiers are lodged temporarily
(e.g: the sergeant gave them leave to rest while officers went in search of billets)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille (see bill). The verb is recorded in the late 16th century, and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th century; hence the current meaning

[ˈbɪlɪt], (Verb)

Definitions:
- lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, especially a civilian's house
(e.g: most of the army was billeted within the town)


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English (originally denoting a short written document): from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille (see bill). The verb is recorded in the late 16th century, and the noun sense, ‘a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier’, from the mid 17th century; hence the current meaning

[ˈbɪlɪt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thick piece of wood

- each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in Norman decorative mouldings

- a rectangle placed vertically as a charge


Phrases:

Origin:
late Middle English: from Old French billette and billot, diminutives of bille ‘tree trunk’, from medieval Latin billa, billus ‘branch, trunk’, probably of Celtic origin