Definitions For Languet

Noun

LANGUET (plural LANGUETs) 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 (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ. : 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow: : 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. (archaic) A narrow tongue of land. (zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

Synonyms

flat plate in an organ language, languid

Etymology

From {{der, en, fro, languete}} (modern French languette), diminutive of langue, , tongue, from {{der, en, la, lingua}}.