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Definition of Billeted
1. billet [v] - See also: billet
Lexicographical Neighbors of Billeted
Literary usage of Billeted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut [1636-1776] by Connecticut, Connecticut General Assembly, Connecticut Council, James Hammond Trumbull, Connecticut Council of Safety, Charles Jeremy Hoadly (1880)
"And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall no billets
be allowed, nor shall any but effective men be billeted on any inhabitant ..."
2. The Public General Acts by Great Britain (1867)
"The Innholder or other Person on whom any Marine is billeted in Great Britain
shall, if required by such Marine, furnish him for every Day ..."
3. The Parish Officer: Comprising the Whole of the Present Law Relating to the by John Frederick Archbold (1858)
"... whether infantry or cavalry, be billeted above one mile from the place mentioned
in the route; in all places where cavalry shall be billeted, ..."
4. The Statutes Relating to the War Office and to the Army by Charles Mathew Clode (1880)
"E laces specified in such order, as His Majesty's forces may by iw be quartered
and billeted upon ; and from and after the receipt of such precept it shall ..."
5. The Whole Law Relating to Innkeepers, Licensed Victuallers, and Other by Charles Henry Marriott Wharton (1876)
"... cavalry shall be billeted in pursuance of this Act, each man and his horse
shall be billeted in one and the same house, except in case of necessity; ..."
6. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1892)
"Section 100, sub-section (1): "The keeper of a victualling house, upon whom any
officer, soldier, or horse is billeted, shall receive such officer, soldier, ..."
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