languet

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:; A narrow blade on the edge of a spade or shovel.
  2. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:; A piece of metal on a sword hilt which overhangs the scabbard.
  3. A tongue-shaped implement, specifically:; 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.
  4. A narrow tongue of land. archaic
  5. A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

词形变化

languets plural

词源

From Old French languete (modern French languette), diminutive of langue (“tongue”), from Latin lingua.
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