1
: a bend in a coast forming an open bay
also
: a bay formed by such a bend
2
: a slack part or loop in a rope
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Examples of bight in a Sentence
the bight known as the Bay of Fundy is known for its fast-running tides
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The Heaving Line Knot: Make two bights and put them next to one another.
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Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
Push the working end through the opening of the bottom bight to finish the knot.
—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
To rig it, tie a figure eight on a bight in the bouncer’s factory webbing, then clip the bight to a daisy chain with a carabiner.
—Emily Stifler Wolfe, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
Cow Bay is one of those bights, right where the suburbs of Dartmouth and Cole Harbour begin to fade into something more rural.
—Melissa Buote, Bon Appétit, 7 Nov. 2019
Going at a speed of forty miles an hour, the hydroplane was heading up the bight in the direction of the sand-pit which connects North Island with Coronado.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
Following the path of the moon and sun along the Zodiac will be Gemini and Cancer as the bight winter season constellations of Orion and Taurus move farther west in the prime viewing hours of the evening sky.
—Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2018
The map was full of promises of the undiscovered, coves and lookout points, brooks and bights each harboring a secret second chance.
—Sara Novic, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2016
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Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
Push the working end through the opening of the bottom bight to finish the knot.
—Craig Caudill, Field & Stream, 12 July 2023
To rig it, tie a figure eight on a bight in the bouncer’s factory webbing, then clip the bight to a daisy chain with a carabiner.
—Emily Stifler Wolfe, Outside Online, 26 Apr. 2021
Cow Bay is one of those bights, right where the suburbs of Dartmouth and Cole Harbour begin to fade into something more rural.
—Melissa Buote, Bon Appétit, 7 Nov. 2019
Going at a speed of forty miles an hour, the hydroplane was heading up the bight in the direction of the sand-pit which connects North Island with Coronado.
—sandiegouniontribune.com, 27 Jan. 2018
Following the path of the moon and sun along the Zodiac will be Gemini and Cancer as the bight winter season constellations of Orion and Taurus move farther west in the prime viewing hours of the evening sky.
—Richard Tribou, OrlandoSentinel.com, 26 Feb. 2018
The map was full of promises of the undiscovered, coves and lookout points, brooks and bights each harboring a secret second chance.
—Sara Novic, New York Times, 11 Aug. 2016
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bight
noun1
: a bend in a coast or the bay it forms
2
: a slack part or loop in a rope
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