bight
pronunciation
How to pronounce bight in British English:
UK [baɪt]
How to pronounce bight in American English:
US [baɪt]
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- Noun:
- a loop in a rope
- a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline
- the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
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- Verb:
- fasten with a bight
Word Origin
- bight
- bight: see bow
- bight (n.)
- Old English byht "bend, angle, corner" (related to bow), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (cognates: Middle Low German bucht, German Bucht, Dutch bocht, Danish bught "bight, bay"), from PIE root *bheug- (3) "to bend," with derivatives referring to bent, pliable, or curved objects (cognates: Old English beag, Old High German boug "ring;" see bow (v.)). Sense of "indentation on a coastline" is from late 15c.
Example
- 1. With bight knives he releaseth my soul .
- 2. Eating is fragrant , sleeping is so sweet a bight smile neve .
- 3. The hall was so bight and dark , so grave and gay .
- 4. We think it bight be the beasles .
- 5. Don 't complain beneath the stars about the lack of bight sopts in your life .