languets

Noun

languet (plural languets)

1. A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.
2. A piece of metal on a sword hilt which overhangs the scabbard.
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.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

   Synonyms:

   language, languid

4. (archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
5. A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.