BIGHT meaning: Curved bend in coastline, rope

We found 35 dictionaries that define the word bight:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

bight: Merriam-Webster
bight: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
bight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
bight, the Bight: Collins English Dictionary
bight: Vocabulary.com
Bight, bight: Wordnik
bight: Wiktionary
bight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
bight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
bight: Infoplease Dictionary
bight: Dictionary.com
bight: Online Etymology Dictionary
Bight (geography), Bight (knot), Bight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Bight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
bight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
bight: Rhymezone
Bight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
bight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
Bight: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
bight: FreeDictionary.org
bight: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
bight: Mnemonic Dictionary
bight: TheFreeDictionary.com
bight: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

bight: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

bight: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

bight: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)

Book Binding (No longer online)
DOD Dictionary of Military Terms (No longer online)
BIGHT: Glossary of Nautical Terms
SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
▸ noun:  (geography) An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf.
▸ noun:  (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
▸ noun:  A curve in a rope.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To arrange or fasten (a rope) in bights.

Similar:

bend, angle, corner, line, coin, left-hander, edge, cant, flex, knee, more...

Opposite:

tangle, knot, coil, snarl, entanglement

Types:

bight of a rope, bight of a bay, bight of a curve, more...

Phrases:

German Bight, Heligoland Bight, Great Australian Bight, Bight of Benin, benin, bight of, more...

Adjectives:

great, southern, small, deep, little, large, shallow, inner, australian, long, open

Colors:

azure, cerulean, turquoise, teal, cyan, more...