- Look up
bight in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The word
bight is
derived from Old
English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay,
bight”). In
modern English...
- The
Bight of Biafra, also
known as the
Bight of Bonny, is a
bight off the west-central
African coast, in the
easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. The...
- The
Great Australian Bight is a
large oceanic bight, or open bay, off the
central and
western portions of the
southern coastline of
mainland Australia...
- The
Bight of Benin, or Bay of Benin, is a
bight in the Gulf of
Guinea area on the
western African coast that
derives its name from the
historical Kingdom...
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Windless Bight (77°42′S 167°40′E / 77.700°S 167.667°E / -77.700; 167.667 (Windless
Bight)) is a
prominent bight that
indens the
south side of Ross...
- The
Heligoland Bight, also
known as
Helgoland Bight, (German: Helgoländer Bucht) is a bay
which forms the
southern part of the
German Bight,
itself a bay...
- tying, a
bight is a
curved section or
slack part
between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn. A knot that can be tied
using only the
bight of a rope...
- The
Karamea Bight is the name
given to a
large bay in the
Tasman Sea
formed by a
curved stretch of the West
Coast of New Zealand's
South Island. It stretches...
- The
bowline on a
bight is a knot
which makes a pair of fixed-size
loops in the
middle of a rope. Its
advantage is that it is
reasonably easy to untie...
- The
German Bight (German:
Deutsche Bucht; Danish:
tyske bugt; Dutch:
Duitse bocht; West Frisian: Dútske bocht;
North Frisian:
Schiisk Bocht; sometimes...
