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Languet vs Headland - What's the difference?

languet | headland |

As nouns the difference between languet and headland

is that languet is a tongue-shaped implement, specifically: while headland is a bit of coastal land that juts into the sea; cape.

languet

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • 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 (or opposite and below the mouth of) the pipe of an organ.
  • 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
  • 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.
  • (archaic) A narrow tongue of land.
  • (zoology) A tongue-like organ found on certain tunicates.

    • Synonyms

    * (flat plate in an organ) language, languid ----

    headland

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bit of coastal land that juts into the sea; cape.
  • The unplowed boundary of a field.

    • Synonyms

    * (coastal land that juts into the sea) peninsula

    See also

    * abuttal * portolan