billed

1. 1
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of bill.

   The law firm billed its clients monthly for consultations.

   Each guest was billed separately for room service.

   Note

   One spelling carries every verb bill has. A client billed monthly was charged, a show billed for Saturday was advertised, and ground billed was dug or chopped with a bill, the cutting tool. The form is regular, with -ed for both past and participle, so it takes have in perfects and be in passives. In compounds such as broad-billed it is not this verb at all but the beak adjective.

2. 2
   adjective

   Having a beak, or a beak-like projection, of a specified kind.

   Ornithologists grouped the broad-billed species apart from their narrow-billed relatives.

   The curve-billed thrasher digs through leaf litter for insects.

   Similarbeaked

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