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nouna bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
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nouna broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
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nouna loop in a ropetype of:
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verbfasten with a bight
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nounthe middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
Definition that contains bight
- volta a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin
- bight fasten with a bight
- cotonou chief port of Benin on the Bight of Benin
- nullarbor plain a vast arid plain of southern Australia stretching inland from the Great Australian Bight; has sparse vegetation and no surface water and is almost uninhabited; the site of a major rocket research center
- snatch block a pulley-block that can be opened to receive the bight of a rope