languet

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languet

/ˈlæŋɡwɪt/
/ˈleɪ̯ŋɡwɪt/
/ˈlæŋɡwət/
/ˈleɪ̯ŋɡwət/

Rhymes with -æŋɡwɪt

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From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua.

noun languets

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. 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.
Similar: language, languid
archaic A narrow tongue of land.
A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

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@misc{languet_2026,
  title = {languet},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/languet},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}