English
Etymology
Old French languete (modern languette), diminutive of langue ‘tongue’, from Latin lingua.
Pronunciation
IPA: /'læŋgwɪt/
Noun
languet
- a tongue-shaped implement, specifically:
## a narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel
## a piece of metal on a sword-hilt which overhangs the scabbard
## a flat plate in the pipe of an organ
##:*1973: If there is music for this it’s windy strings and reed sections standing in bright shirt fronts and black ties all along the beach, a robed organist by the breakwater—itself broken, crusted with tides—whose languets and flues gather and shape the resident spooks here — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- archaic a narrow tongue of land
- zoology a tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates
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