English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from French billot.

Noun edit

billot

  1. bullion in the bar or mass

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “billot”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

French edit

Etymology edit

From bille +‎ -ot.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

billot m (plural billots)

  1. block
    1. butcher block
    2. executioner block

Further reading edit