1. For military personnel (especially in a private home).
2. Aan official order directing that a member of a military force be provided with board and lodging (as in a private home)
3. Quarters assigned by or as if by a billet
4. Position, job
5. A chunky piece of wood (as for firewood)
6. A bar of metal
7. A piece of semifinished iron or steel nearly square in section made by rolling an ingot or bloom
8. A section of nonferrous metal ingot hot-worked by forging, rolling, or extrusion
9. A nonferrous casting suitable for rolling or extrusion

To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge; thus, to quarter, or place in lodgings, as soldiers in private houses.