[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.
1640–4. in Rushw. Hist. Coll., III. (1692), I. 206. Officers or Billiters of Souldiers, dead or run away.
1643. Bramhall, Wks., 1842–4, III. 450. So soon as he was gotten into Hull to fill their house with billetters.
1663. W. Sharp, in Lauderd. Papers (1884), I. 127. The billeters may be disappoynted.
