n.[C]

1. 向軍人提供住宿處的書面命令
   The townspeople received billets ordering them to lodge the regiment overnight.

   鎮民接到命令，要為一團官兵提供一夜住宿。

2. （軍營以外的）士兵住宿處
   The old mansion served as the soldiers' billet for a week.

   士兵在那所古宅裡住了一個星期。

3. 給海員指定的睡舖
4. 職位，工作，地位
   He landed a lucrative billet with a publishing house.

   他在一家出版社裡謀到一個報酬很高的職位。

5. 【古】短簡，便條

vt.

1. 分配（士兵等）住宿地[（+on）]
   The captain billeted his soldiers on old Mrs. Smith.

   那上尉分派士兵住在史密斯老太太的房子裡。

2. 把提供住宿處的命令送交
3. 委派，任命

vi.

1. 投宿；駐紮

n.[C]

1. 作燃料用的小木條
2. 木棒；木棍
3. 【冶】鋼坯；坯料
4. 短金屬條
5. 【建】錯齒式粉刷線腳
6. （馬鞍）皮帶的扣環部分

n.

v.

n.

1. a thick piece of wood.
   ▸a small bar of metal for further processing.
2. Architecture  each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in Norman decorative mouldings.
3. Heraldry  a rectangle placed vertically as a charge.