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bight

/baɪt/

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noun
a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
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turn bend crook twist
noun
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
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bay embayment
noun
a loop in a rope
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type of:
loop
verb
fasten with a bight
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secure fasten fix
noun
the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
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center centre midpoint

part of:
rope

Definition that contains bight

volta a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin
bight fasten with a bight
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
cotonou chief port of Benin on the Bight of Benin