bight

/baɪt/

Other forms: bights

Definitions of bight

1. noun

   a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
   type of:

   bend, crook, turn, twist

   a circular segment of a curve
2. noun

   a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
   “the Bight of Benin”

   “the Great Australian Bight”

   examples:

   Bight of Benin

   a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa

   Great Australian Bight

   a wide bay of the Indian Ocean in southern Australia; notorious for storms

   type of:

   bay, embayment

   an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf
3. noun

   a loop in a rope
   type of:

   loop

   anything with a round or oval shape (formed by a curve that is closed and does not intersect itself)
4. noun

   the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
   type of:

   center, centre, midpoint

   a point equidistant from the ends of a line or the extremities of a figure
5. verb

   fasten with a bight
   type of:

   fasten, fix, secure

   cause to be firmly attached