vbl. sb. [Consists of what are really different words f. BILLET v. and sb.]
1. The quartering of soldiers by billet.
1640. Petit. to King, in Harl. Misc. (1811), VII. 215. Your subjects burdened with … billeting of soldiers, and other military charges.
1810. Wellington, in Gurw., Disp., VI. 72. As long as the system of billeting continues.
† 2. Selection by billet or voting-paper. Obs.
1662. R. Law, Mem. (1817), 12. An act of billating, by which he would have cut off some nobles in the land from all public trust.
1662. W. Sharp, in Lauderd. Pap. (1884), I. lvi. The billeting being agreed to in the articles yesterday.
3. See quot. (Cf. BILLET sb.2 5.)
1706. Phillips, 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.
