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- terminology of knot-tying) Search for "bight" on Wikipedia. All pages with titles containing bight or bights Canto Bight, a fictional city in Star Wars: The...
- qualifies as a bight. Ashley (1944) treats bights and loops as distinct, stating that a curve "no narrower than a semicircle" is a bight, while an open...
- classified according to the number of leads and bights, as well as the method of construction. The number of bights is the number of crossings around the cir****ference...
- 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...
- slightly recessed. Bights are distinguished from sounds, in that sounds are much deeper. Traditionally, explorers defined a bight as a bay that could...
- 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 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...
- 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...
- of two ends, one forms two bights of the same rope, then three reliable loops are created; a loop at each of the two bights, and a third formed by the...
- 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...