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noun. A loop in a rope.

noun. The middle or slack part of an extended rope.

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noun. A bend or curve, especially in a shoreline.

noun. A wide bay formed by such a bend or curve.

noun. . A bend or bending; an angle, especially in a living body, as of the elbow, or the inward bend of a horse's chambrel, or the bend of the fore knees.

noun. 2. A loop of a rope, in distinction from the ends; any bent part or turn of a rope between the ends.

noun. . A narrow bay or recess in a sea-coast between comparatively distant headlands; a long and gradual bend of a coast-line: used especially in the names Bight of Benin and of Biafra in Africa, and the Great Australian Bight (on the south coast).

noun. . A similar bend in the shore of a river or a bay, or recess in a mountain; a bay-like indentation.

To fold or double so as to make one or more bights.

noun. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow.

noun. A bend in a coast forming an open bay.

noun. The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

noun. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

noun. An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf

noun. A curve in a rope

noun. a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline

noun. a loop in a rope

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

verb. fasten with a bight

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

"Figure I is a double bight, which is laid over the top of the pack, so that the two loops hang, well down, half on each side."