Billet

1. n. A ticket from a public officer directing soldiers at what house to lodge; as, a billet of residence.
2. n. A small paper; a note; a short letter.
3. n. A small stick of wood, as for firewood.
4. n. A short bar of metal, as of gold or iron.
5. n. An ornament in Norman work, resembling a billet of wood either square or round.
6. n. A strap which enters a buckle.
7. n. A loop which receives the end of a buckled strap.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.