Usually means: Metal bar or block form.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. billet: Merriam-Webster
  2. billet, billet: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. billet, billet: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. billet: Collins English Dictionary
  5. billet: Vocabulary.com
  6. Billet, billet: Wordnik
  7. billet: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. billet: Wiktionary
  9. billet: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. billet: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. billet: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Billet, billet: Dictionary.com
  13. billet: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Billet (bar stock), Billet (disambiguation), Billet (manufacturing), Billet (semi-finished product), Billet: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Billet: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. billet: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. billet: Rhymezone
  18. Billet, billet (m): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. billet: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. billet: FreeDictionary.org
  21. billet: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. billet: TheFreeDictionary.com
  23. billet: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. BILLET: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  2. An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. billet: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. billet: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. billet: Idioms
  2. billet, billet: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Billet: LITHICS-NET's Glossary of Lithics Terminology
  3. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)
  4. How Many? A Dictionary of Units of Measurement (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. billet: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. billet: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Billet: Bicycle Glossary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Metal Terminology (No longer online)
  2. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  3. DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
  4. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A short informal letter.
noun:  A written order to quarter soldiers.
noun:  A sealed ticket for a draw or lottery.
noun:  A place where a soldier is assigned to lodge.
noun:  Temporary lodgings in a private residence, such as is organised for members of a visiting sports team.
noun:  An allocated space or berth in a boat or ship.
noun:  (figurative) Berth; position.
verb:  (transitive, of a householder etc.) To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.
verb:  (intransitive, of a soldier) To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
verb:  (transitive) To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.
noun:  (metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.
noun:  A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.
noun:  A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.
noun:  (heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.
noun:  (architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.
noun:  (saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.
noun:  A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.
noun:  Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”) [(obsolete) A coalfish, especially a young one.]

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