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.
