1. A bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
   "The ship anchored in the bight, protected from the open sea"
    
2. A broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
   "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"
    
3. A loop in a rope
   "The sailor tied a bight in the rope to create a temporary handhold"
    
4. The middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
   "The sailor held the bight of the rope to create a loop"

1. Fasten with a bight
   "The sailor bighted the rope to secure the sail"

Sounds like: bite, byte

Derived forms: bighting, bighted, bights

Type of: bay, bend, center [US], centre [Brit, Cdn], crook, embayment, fasten, fix, loop, midpoint, secure, turn, twist

Part of: rope

Encyclopedia: Bight