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ˈbilleter
[f. billet v. + -er.]
a. An officer who makes out billets.
†b. A soldier with a billet.
†c. One who selects by billet: see billet v. 5.
1640–4in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 206 Officers or Billiters of Souldiers, dead or run away. 1643Bramhall Wks. 1842–4 III. 450 So soon as he was gotten into Hull to fill their house with billetters. 1663W. Sharp in Lauderd. Papers (1884) I. 127 The billeters may be disappoynted.
d. A person who receives a billetee into his or her household.
1939Picture Post 18 Nov. 44 The Government pays billeters 10s. a week for one child or 8s. 6d. each for more than one. 1966New Statesman 11 Feb. 202/2 First, there's evacuation. ‘Are they coloured?’ asks a billeter. ‘I can't take eight people,’ says another. |