bight

• “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.”

  Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies

• “At the head of the bight is a lagoon; but the entrance proving to be very shallow, and finding no security, we continued on our voyage; trusting that some place of shelter would present itself, if obliged to seek it by necessity.”

  A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 2

• “bight" -- surrounded by ships and the men who sail them -- I might almost have been a hardy newspaper man!”

  Shandygaff

• “For convenience in handling rope and learning the various knots, ties, and bends, we use the terms "standing part," "bight," and "end" (Fig. 3).”

  Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise

• “While everybody was thus occupied with things immediately concerning their safety, nobody paid any attention to the approach of a boat, which had set out from a kind of bight in the face of the mountain.”

  The Second Deluge

• “Just where we landed was a small cove, or "bight," which gave us, at high tide, a few square feet of sand-beach between the sea and the bottom of the hill.”

  Two years before the mast, and twenty-four years after: a personal narrative

• “-- In a floe may be natural or artificial; the former being simply a small "bight," in which a ship is placed to secure her from the danger of external pressure; and the latter, a square space cut out with saws for a similar purpose.”

  Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1

• “In this manner we had advanced about four miles to the westward by eight P.M., after eleven hours of very laborious exertion; and having then come to the end of the clear water, and the weather being again foggy, the ships were secured in a deep "bight," or bay in a floe, called by the sailors a”

  Three Voyages for the Discovery of a Northwest Passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and Narrative of an Attempt to Reach the North Pole, Volume 1

• “bight," which gave us, at high tide, a few square feet of sand-beach between the sea and the bottom of the hill.”

  Two Years Before the Mast

• “There are always shoals of whales about that part, and it is supposed a 'bight' of the cable lying off the ground got wound up like a rope round a screw. ”

  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon

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