Billet Door

[divlong]

I think that this may be an answer in the quizzes and puzzles section but I am unable to find a definition for what a billet door is.

Google comes up with lots of people selling billet door acessories but no description of what one actually is. It may be part of a truck or van and appears to be an American phrase.

Any ideas.

Cheers

Duncan

[Catron]

Do you mean this, perhaps?

billet-doux or
n (pl billets-doux or ) a love letter.

[divlong]

No, the subject is for cryptic descriptions of types of door.

The clue in this instance is "sleeping place".

I know that a billet door exists, just not what it is.

Thanks anyway

Duncan

[burnhal]

Might the answer be stable door?
Some of those sites mispell bullet as billet.
In other cases a billet refers to a chunk- of metal or wood.

[heathfield]

A billet is a rough-finish cast bar. It can be round, square, hexagonal, or any other cross-section. The ''doors'' you will have seen on Google have been machined from a cut section of such bars.

[Huttonite]

This is off the top of my head ( another phrase saying) but a billet is a word for a place to stay set up by some official organisation, usually the army so I guess a billet door is a place where a company has already established a customer and further trading is possible. Double glazing salespeople spring to mind.