"document, note;" see billet-doux.

thick stick of wood, mid-15c., from Middle French billette, diminutive of bille "stick of wood" (see billiards).

1590s, "to assign quarters to," earlier, as a noun, "official record or register" (Middle English), from Anglo-French billette "list, schedule," diminutive of bille (see [..]

a place that is designated for soldiers to receive food and shelter.

A sleeping space aboard ship. Also used to indicate a Marine's assignment toduty position on the Table of Organization.

s - Marine Corps slang for the building, berthing area or tent where a unit was housed.

Accommodation indoors

A house, barn or stable in which troops were stationed.

(1) a compressed cylinder of PTFE resin, from which raw tubing is extruded. Also called a preform. (2) a solid piece of material from which a fitting is manufactured.

housing for military personal.  Housing reserved for officers

A solid chunk of metal, usually in the form of a slab or a piece of cylindrical stock. Commonly cut into usable parts by CNC machinery.

A semi-finished steel form that is used for “long” products: bars, channels or other structural shapes. A billet is different from a slab because of its outer dimensions; billets are normally two to s [..]

A square form of semifinished steel that later is rolled into a finished product such as a bar.

(i) In steel, a long product of square cross-section used for rolling into finished shape as a rebar or light long product; the form in which steel is traded on the LME. (ii) In non-ferrous (mostly aluminum and brass) a cylindrical shape for use in an extrusion press; or in a piercing machine as the start of solid-drawn tube production.

These are long, continuously cast semis

Also often called a bloom. A semifinished product of square, rectangular, or even round cross section, hot rolled, or forged. Producing billets or blooms from ingots by forging is called cogging, whil [..]

A chunky piece of wood (as for firewood). A bar of metal. A piece of semifinished iron or steel nearly square in section made by rolling an ingot.

(n) a short personal letter(n) lodging for military personnel (especially in a private home)(n) a job in an organization(v) provide housing for (military personnel)

(See Bloom)

A compressed cylinder of Fluropolymer resin from which raw tubing is extruded. Or a solid piece of material from which a fitting is manufactured.

    An allotted sleeping space; an individual's position in the ship's organization.  

a  specific position in the ship's organization. For example, First Division Officer, Captain's yeoman, etc. Also, the position to which one is assigned. "Mr. Sander's billet w [..]

an individual’s position in the ship’s organization.

A hot worked semi-finished product suitable for subsequent working by such methods as rolling, forging, extruding, etc.

Log shaped ingot. Used to produce extrusions. Diameters typically range from 75-250 mm. Usually alloyed.

A bone or antler tool used for flaking.

A length of wood used in making selfbows. Billets are split from a side by side position in the same log to obtain similar limb performance characteristics, and spliced in the handle section of a bow.

A short informal letter. *frm|billette||schedule, fromla|bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.

ticket

A billet is a living quarters to which a soldier is assigned to sleep. Historically, a billet was a private dwelling that was required to accept the soldier. Soldiers are generally billeted in barrack [..]

A billet is the place where a person is assigned to sleep. Billet may also refer to: Billet (semi-finished product), a semi-finished cast or rolled metal product Billet (tack), the straps on an Engli [..]