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billeting, vbl. n.|ˈbɪlɪtɪŋ|
[Consists of what are really different words f. billet v. and n.]
1. a. The quartering of soldiers by billet.
1640Petit. to King in Harl. Misc. (1811) VII. 215 Your subjects burdened with..billeting of soldiers, and other military charges. 1810Wellington in Gurw. Disp. VI. 72 As long as the system of billeting continues.
b. The provision of quarters for civilian evacuees, esp. in the war of 1939–45. Freq. attrib.
1936in R. M. Titmuss Probl. Social Policy (1950) iii. 25 The evacuation of London needs to be thought out in terms, not of transport only but of reception, housing (by compulsory billeting if necessary) and feeding. 1938Hansard Commons 12 May 1703, I assume that my hon. Friend has in mind what are sometimes called billeting surveys. 1939Punch 11 Oct. 400/2 The children were deposited on her doorstep by an apologetic but helpless billeting-officer. 1940Ann. Reg. 1939 112 Evacuation necessarily caused a good deal of inconvenience... There were many ‘misfits’ in the billeting. 1969A. Calder People's War ii. 45 In spite of all the fuss, there had been many cases of successful billeting. Ibid. vi. 409 There had been many allegations that billeting officers, usually ‘respectable’ people themselves, had let other ‘respectable’ people off lightly.
†2. Selection by billet or voting-paper. Obs.
1662R. Law Mem. (1817) 12 An act of billating, by which he would have cut off some nobles in the land from all public trust. 1662W. Sharp in Lauderd. Pap. (1884) I. lvi, The billeting being agreed to in the articles yesterday.
3. See quot. (Cf. billet n.2 5.)
1706Phillips, Billiting, (among Hunters), the Ordure, or Dung of a Fox. [So in Bailey and later Dicts.]
4. billeting-roll (Iron-working), a set of rollers for reducing smelted iron to the form of bars. |