billot

English

Noun

billot (plural billots)

  1. Obsolete spelling of billet
    • 1853, Samuel Hazard, John Blair Linn, William Henry Egle, George Edward Reed, Thomas Lynch Montgomery, Gertrude MacKinney, Charles Francis Hoban, Pennsylvania Archives, page 699:
      […] with billots of wood to keep them from the bottom & give a free passage for the air, Then put Shingle shavings, Billots of wood & faggots alternatively, untill  […]
    • 1881, United States. Patent Office, Specifications and Drawings of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office, page 292:
      […] a pile of bars or billots of iron, B', which are supposed to be undergoing the reheating process.
    • 1920, Concrete-cement Age, page 76:
      ... of the billots of steel from which the wire is drawn is followed through every step of its manufacture by equally thorough inspections.

French

Etymology

From bille +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bi.jo/
  • Audio (France (Vosges)):(file)

Noun

billot m (plural billots)

  1. block
    1. butcher block
    2. executioner block
    3. wood-chopping block

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