Bight (knot)
WordNet
noun
(1) The middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
(2) A broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
"The Bight of Benin"
"The Great Australian Bight"
(3) A bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
(4) A loop in a rope
verb
(5) Fasten with a bight
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes)
- An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
- A loop in a rope.