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Webster 1913 Edition
Languet
Lan′guet
,Noun.
[F.
languette
, dim. of langue
tongue, L. lingua
.] 1.
Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.
2.
That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.
Webster 1828 Edition
Languet
LAN'GUET
,Noun.
Definition 2024
languet
languet
English
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.