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n. A loop in a rope.

n. The middle or slack part of an extended rope.

n. A bend or curve, especially in a shoreline.

n. A wide bay formed by such a bend or curve.

n. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

n. An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf

n. A curve in a rope

n. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow.

n. A bend in a coast forming an open bay.

n. The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

n. . A bend or bending; an angle, especially in a living body, as of the elbow, or the inward bend of a horse's chambrel, or the bend of the fore knees.

n. 2. A loop of a rope, in distinction from the ends; any bent part or turn of a rope between the ends.

n. . A narrow bay or recess in a sea-coast between comparatively distant headlands; a long and gradual bend of a coast-line: used especially in the names Bight of Benin and of Biafra in Africa, and the Great Australian Bight (on the south coast).

n. . A similar bend in the shore of a river or a bay, or recess in a mountain; a bay-like indentation.

To fold or double so as to make one or more bights.

n. a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

n. a loop in a rope

n. the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

v. fasten with a bight

n. a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

"Figure I is a double bight, which is laid over the top of the pack, so that the two loops hang, well down, half on each side."

bighted    bighting    bights   

loop    center    midpoint    centre    fix    secure    fasten    turn    crook    twist   

bowline on a bight   

Great Australian Bight    Bight of Benin   

hollow    loop    bay   

Bright    Dwight    Knight    Night    White    Wight    Wright    alight    allright    alright   

estuary    cove    firth    inlet    headland    indentation    lagoon    harbors    frith    isthmus