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# billet

«billet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A short thick piece of wood, cut ready for chopping or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (billets)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A short thick piece of wood, cut ready for chopping or burning. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billet/#m1)

2) (old use) A short note or letter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a woman hands a man a billet of wood to chop; a wood-cutter cuts trees into billets

### examples

- The woodcutter stacked the billets by the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billet/#x1)
- She gave him a billet of wood to chop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billet/#x2)
- Split the logs into billets for the fire. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billet/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «billet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/billet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.