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billeted, ppl. a.|ˈbɪlɪtɪd| [f. billet v. and n.] †1. Furnished with billets or strips of metal. Obs.
1626T. H. Caussin's Holy Crt. 189 The Cymball was..composed of thinne plates of brasse, with certayne small barres of iron, fastned, and crosse billeted in the plates. 2. Quartered by billet.
1628Moundeford MSS. in Forster Gr. Remonstr. 221 The billeted souldiers. 1866Morn. Star 12 July, In Saxony each billeted soldier pays five silbergroschen. |