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Verb
/ˈbilit/,
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billets, plural;
  1. Lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, esp. a civilian's house or other nonmilitary facility
    • - he didn't belong to the regiment billeted at the hotel
Noun
  1. A thick piece of wood

  2. A small bar of metal for further processing

  3. Each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in decorative hollow moldings

  4. A rectangle placed vertically as a charge

  1. quarter: provide housing for (military personnel)
  2. note: a short personal letter; "drop me a line when you get there"
  3. position: a job in an organization; "he occupied a post in the treasury"
  4. A billet is a term for living quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. Historically, it referred to a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier.
  5. Bar stock, also colloquially known as billet, is a common form of raw purified metal, used by industry to manufacture metal parts and products.
  6. Semi-finished casting products are intermediate castings produced in a foundry that need further processing before being a finished good. There are four types: ingots, billets, blooms, and slabs.
  7. A girth, sometimes called a cinch (Western riding), is a piece of equipment used to keep the saddle in place on a horse or other animal. It passes under the barrel of the equine, usually attached to the saddle on both sides by two or three leather straps called billets. ...
  8. (Billets (film)) Billets is a 1925 silent-era British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott and featuring Sydney Fairbrother and Irene Tripod.
  9. A short informal letter; A written order to quarter soldiers; to lodge soldiers, usually by order; to lodge, or be quartered, in a private house
  10. (BILLETS) The blank shafts that the camshafts are made from.
  11. (Billets) Common name for chopped lengths of cane (approx. 300 mm) produced by mechanical cane harvesters.
  12. (Billets) Large section boards, three inches and thicker, held in stock air drying prior to being resawn into beams and purlins
  13. (Billets) Pieces of small diameter round timber cut to length.
  14. (Billets) Resting place for soldiers, usually behind the lines.
  15. (Billets) Usually associated with a solid semi-finished product for further rerolling, reprocessing or reshaping, in dimensions of 2 1/2, square inch minimum to 36 square inch maximum.
  16. (Billets) this is a form of psychometry offered by Spiritualist mediums. A billet is a small piece of paper used for spiritual message bearers in a public setting among spiritualist churches. ...
  17. (billets) Determination that in order to meet need-to-know criteria, certain Special Access Programs may elect to limit access to a predetermined number of properly cleared employees. Security personnel do not count against the billet system. [DSS] (see also access, security)
  18. (billets) leather straps under the flaps of English saddles, to which the buckles of the girth attach.
  19. A leather strap with punched holes, permanently attached in sets of two or three on each side of the tree of a saddle, used to hold and adjust the girth that holds on most types of saddle. See also latigo.
  20. A glass ingot, similar to a dalle, used in glass casting.
  21. A semifinished, cogged, hot-rolled, or continuous-cast metal product of uniform section, usually rectangular with radiused corners. Billets are relatively larger than bars. See Bloom.
  22. (1) A semi-finished section hot rolled from a metal ingot, with a rectangular cross section usually ranging from 16-36", the width being less than twice the thickness. Where the cross section exceeds 36", the term "bloom" is properly but not universally used. ...
  23. A solid semi-finished round or square bar of steel that is heated and pierced to form a hollow tube for seamless pipe.
  24. a solid semi-finished round, square or rectangular cast bar produced in different diameters, sizes and lengths for use in the aluminium profile process. Billets may be cast to diameter and length (book mould) or cast in logs and cut to length (direct chill). ...
  25. A solid semi-finished round or square ingot that has been hot-worked by forging or rolling.