languet (suomeksi)

Määritelmät:

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.
(lb, en, archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
(lb, en, zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.