bight (n.)

  1. a loop in a rope

  2. a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)

  3. a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline; the Bight of Benin; the Great Australian Bight'

  4. the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)

    bight (v.)

  1. fasten with a bight

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