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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'languet' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions languet noun  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 Etymology: Old French languete (modern languette), diminutive of langue "tongue", from Latin lingua.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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