Lan"guet, n. [F. languette, dim. of langue tongue, L. lingua.] 1. Anything resembling the tongue in form or office; specif., the slip of metal in an organ pipe which turns the current of air toward its mouth.

2. That part of the hilt, in certain kinds of swords, which overlaps the scabbard.

• 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 the pipe of an organ
  
• #:*1973: 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 — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
  
• (archaic) a narrow tongue of land
  
• (Zoology) a tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates