bight
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[edit] Etymology
From Old English byht, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz.
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[edit] Noun
bight (plural bights)
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes)
- An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
- A curve in a rope
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bend
large bay
curve
