Bight

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bight \Bight\ (b[imac]t), n. [OE. bi[yogh]t a bending; cf. Sw. &
     Dan. bugt bend, bay; fr. AS. byht, fr. b[=u]gan. [root]88.
     Cf. {Bout}, {Bought} a bend, and see {Bow}, v.]
     1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a
        horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
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     2. (Geog.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the
        Bight of Benin.
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     3. (Naut.) 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.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bight
       n 1: a loop in a rope
       2: a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
       3: a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the
          shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian
          Bight"
       4: the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its
          ends)
       v : fasten with a bight

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "bight":
     L, angle, apex, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bend, bifurcation,
     boca, cant, chevron, coin, corner, cove, crank, creek, crook,
     crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, estuary, euripus, fjord,
     fork, frith, furcation, gulf, gut, harbor, hook, inflection, inlet,
     knee, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows,
     natural harbor, nook, point, quoin, reach, road, roads, roadstead,
     slough, sound, strait, straits, swerve, veer, vertex, zag, zig,
     zigzag