ppl. a. [f. BILLET v. and sb.]

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  † 1.  Furnished with billets or strips of metal. Obs.

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1626.  T. H., trans. 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.

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  2.  Quartered by billet.

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1628.  Moundeford MSS., in Forster, Gr. Remonstr., 221. The billeted souldiers.

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1866.  Morn. Star, 12 July. In Saxony each billeted soldier pays five silbergroschen.

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