English Dictionary

languet

/ˈlæŋɡwɪt/

noun

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.

He used the languet of the spade to cut through the tough roots.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

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

意味（3）

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.

意味（4）

(archaic) A narrow tongue of land.

意味（5）

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