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What is a bight?

What is a bight? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
  2. An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
  3. (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
  4. A curve in a rope
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On a bight of this rope, between the block and the bitt, the accumulator was lashed.
The offshore waters are typically tempestuous, but winds in the channel's eastern bight will be only 10 to 15 knots.
Take a half-hitch over the end of each bight with the standing part which is next to it.
A bight signifies a bay or sinuosity, on the border of any large mass or body of ice.
We'll go back around the point and into that last small bight we passed on our way here.
Couldn't see the mountains but Lake Taupo and the Taranaki bight were visible.

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