Definitions for bight

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Spelling: [bahyt]

IPA: /baɪt/

Bight is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in bight (bghit).

Definitions for bight

noun

1. the middle part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
2. the loop or bent part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends.
3. a bend or curve in the shore of a sea or river.
4. a body of water bounded by such a bend.
5. a bay or gulf.

verb (used with object)

1. to fasten with a bight of rope.

Origin of bight

before 1000; Middle English byght, Old English byht bend, bay; cognate with Dutch bocht, German Bucht; akin to bow¹

Examples for bight

The rain came down as it can come only in the bight of Benin.

All busy preparing for a start for the Head of the bight to-morrow.

A further involution makes what is termed a bowline on a bight.

It has a seacoast of about 200 miles on the bight of Biafra.

On the 28th of August came the battle off the bight of Helgoland.

It is situated in the bight of the bay, eastward of Bonthian.

Now slip the bight of the lanyard over your neck, and follow me.

But at the last moment he managed to clutch the bight of the hanging rope.

Humans, however, are rarely seen—the bight is more than man can chew...

bight hours was the time Mr. Gladstone permitted himself to sleep.