bight

plural bights

1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow

   the bight of an elbow

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   the bight of a horse's knee

   I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.

   1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166

2. geographyAn area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
3. geographyA bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
4. A curve in a rope.

   I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I

present singular third person bights · participle present bighting · participle past bighted · past bighted

1. transitiveTo arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.