Definition of "languet"

A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:

1. A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.  examples

2. A piece of metal on a sword hilt which overhangs the scabbard.  examples

3. A flat plate in (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ.  quotations  examples

   Quotations

   • 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.

     1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

(archaic) A narrow tongue of land.

(zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.