billet

noun

1. Alternative form of billard (“coalfish”).

verb

Etymology: From Middle French billette (“schedule”), from bullette, diminutive form of bulle (“document”), from Medieval Latin bulla, hence cognate with etymology 1 above.

1. To lodge soldiers, or guests, usually by order.

   “Billeted in so antiquated a mansion.”

   “Destroy, with entire unpity, raze to the ground, those detestable houses where you billet the progeny of the libertinage of the poor, appalling cloacas, wherefrom there every day spews forth into society a swarm of new-made creatures […]”

2. To lodge, or be quartered, in a private house.
3. To direct, by a ticket or note, where to lodge.