1) Bay 2) Cove 3) Gulf
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1) Bend in a shoreline 2) Body of water 3) Exclusively Saxon word 4) Exclusively Anglo word 5) Fasten with a bight 6) Loop 7) Loop in a rope 8) Loop in rope 9) River bend 10) Shoreline bend 11) Shoreline curve 12) Word with Anglo-Saxon origins 13) Word of purely Anglo origin
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- a loop in a rope
- a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
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[geography] In geography, bight has two meanings. A bight can be simply a bend or curve in any geographical feature, usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water. Alternatively, the term can refer to a large (and often only slightly receding) bay. It is distinguished from a sound by being shallower. Traditionally explorers def...
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[knot] In knot tying, a bight is a curved section or slack part between the two ends of a rope, string or yarn. `Any section of line that is bent into a U-shape is a bight.` An open loop is a curve in a rope narrower than a bight but with separated ends. The term is also used in a more specific way when describing Turk`s head knots, indicat...
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[rope] Derived from species maps. Extant range of Panthera. ...
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a wide bay; a bend or coil in a rope
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• (v.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse`s knee; the bight of an elbow. • (v.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. • (v.) 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.Bight: words in the definit...
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The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is formed.
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1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. ... 2. <geography> A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. ... 3. 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. ... Origin: OE. Bit a bendi...
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The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is formed. BILGE - The interior of the hull below the floor boards
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a loop of rope
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Bight (bīt)
noun [ Middle English
biʒt a bending; confer Swedish & Danish
bugt bend, bay; from Anglo-Saxon
byht , from
būgan . √88. Confer
Bout ,
Bought a bend, and see
Bow ,
v. ]
1. A corner...
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In geography, a bight is a shallow even indentation in the sea coast, often of great width.
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In nautical terms, a bight is an incomplete loop, a bend or curve in a rope.
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A large bay.
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The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part, on which a knot is formed.
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The part of the rope or line, between the end and the standing part,on which a knot is formed. BILGE
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A indentation in a coast forming an open bay, usually crescent shaped.
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an extensive crescent-shaped indentation in the ice edge , formed either by wind or current.
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A slight indentation in a COAST forming an open BAY, usually crescent shaped.
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noun the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
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Coastal indentation, crescent-shaped or gently curving, such as the Bight of Biafra in West Africa and the Great Australian Bight
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the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends. · the loop or bent part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends. · a bend or curve in the shore of a sea or river. · a body of water bounded by such a bend. · a bay or gulf.
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A bend in a rope or a folded section of rope.
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