Bight Definition

bīt
noun
A loop in a rope.
American Heritage
A bend, angle, or hollow, specif. of a body structure.
Webster's New World
The middle or slack part of an extended rope.
American Heritage
A loop or slack part in a rope.
Webster's New World
A bend or curve, especially in a shoreline.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
To fasten with a bight of rope.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Bight

Noun

Singular:
bight
Plural:
bights

Origin of Bight

  • From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt, see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰūgʰ- (“to bend”). Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”) . Compare bought.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English bend, angle from Old English byht bheug- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Bight Sentence Examples

  • There are no mountains behind the Great Australian Bight.

  • Where the reptile is venerated or feared it is usually inviolable, and among the Brassmen of the Niger the dangerous and destructive cobra was especially protected by an article in the diplomatic treaty of 1856 for the Bight of Biafra (Maclennan, 524).

  • It is convenient to employ a specific name for a projection of a coast-line less pronounced than a peninsula, and for an inlet less pronounced than a bay or bight; outcurve and incurve may serve the turn.

  • It is separated from the mainland by two narrow straits, and save for these channels blocks the entrance to a large bight identified with the Lake Triton of the Romans.

  • The slight inward sweep of the coast forms the Canterbury Bight, and the shore-line northward from Timaru is called the Ninety-mile Beach.

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Words Starting With

BBIBIG

Words Ending With

THTGHT

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Words Starting With B and Ending With T

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