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bight

Pronunciation: /baɪt/

The English word “bight” has 5 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
  2. An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
  3. A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
  4. A curve in a rope.

verb

  1. To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

Etymology

From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian boch, bocht, bucht (“bay, bight, gulf”), Saterland…

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