English Dictionary

billet

/ˈbɪlɪt/

noun

(metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal. / A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood. / A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.

I need to buy a billet of steel for my project.

意味（1）

(metallurgy) A semi-finished length of metal.

The Saturday evening Cardiff-West Wales mail train is still steam-worked, but a most unlikely locomotive used on May 23 was Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 No. 45250 (5A); it returned on May 25 with a train of steel billets.

意味（2）

A short piece of wood, especially one used as firewood.

They shall beat out my brains with billets.

意味（3）

A short cutting of sugar cane produced by a harvester or used for planting.

意味（4）

(heraldry) A rectangle used as a charge on an escutcheon.

意味（5）

(architecture) An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood, either square or round.

意味（6）

(saddlery) A strap that enters a buckle.

意味（7）

A loop that receives the end of a buckled strap.