linguet
variant of languet.
| 1644 Digby Nat. Bodies xix. 166 The body or linguet [sc. ‘a tongue, or labell of flannen’] by which the water ascendeth, being a dry one. 1875 Knight Dict. Mech., Linguet, a tongue; as in some organ-pipes. A languet. Ibid., Linguet, the piece of a sword-hilt which turns down over the mouth-piece of a scabbard. |