bight

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  1. noun A loop in a rope.
  2. noun The middle or slack part of an extended rope.
  3. noun A bend or curve, especially in a shoreline.
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  • Old Robinson's bight is too shallow for a boat of any size, but a skiff can be anchored outside a narrow passage between rocky ledges. —  LJWorld.com stories: News
  • Mortvedt's next expedition will come in 2010 when he will fly his aircraft, a bight orange Cessna 185 aptly named "The Polar Pumpkin," to the North Pole.
  • Then when I'm ready to set up the rope, I just tie a figure 8 on the bight (the center), clip it to the anchor, knot the ends with a double fishermans, and toss the rest over the edge.
  • The New York bight is the right angle formed by Long Island and New Jersey with the city tucked into its apex. —  Freezerbox Magazine
  • Day was one of several Key West residents stopped and questioned in the bight area Wednesday by people who identified themselves as federal agents, but offered no explanation for their actions. —  KeysNews.com -
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  1. Middle English, bend, angle, from Old English byht; see bheug- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English bycht, byʒt, from Anglo-Saxon byht, a bend, a corner (= Dutch bocht = German bucht, a bay, bight, = Swedish Danish bugt, bend, bight of a rope, a bay); cf. byge, a bend, angle, from būgan (past participle bogen), bend, bow: see bow, and cf. the ult. identical English bought, bout and the related bail, a ring, hoop: see bout.
  2. from bight, n.
 

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