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Bight

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Noun

1. bight

a loop in a rope

2. bight

a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

3. bight

a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

Example Sentences:
'the Bight of Benin'
'the Great Australian Bight'

4. bight

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

Verb

5. bight

fasten with a bight

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Bight

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noun
1. 
a wide indentation of a shoreline, or the body of water bounded by such a curve
2. 
the slack middle part of an extended rope
3. 
a curve or loop in a rope
verb
4. (transitive)
to fasten or bind with a bight
noun
the Bight

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Bight

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noun
1.  Obsolete
a bend, angle, or hollow, specif. of a body structure
2. 
a loop or slack part in a rope
3. 
a curve in a river, coastline, etc.
4. 
a bay formed by such a curve
verb transitive
5. 
to fasten with a bight of rope

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Bight

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n.
1.
a. A loop in a rope.
b. The middle or slack part of an extended rope.
2.
a. A bend or curve, especially in a shoreline.
b. A wide bay formed by such a bend or curve.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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