Bight

n.	1.	A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
	2.	(Geog.) A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
	3.	(Naut.) The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.

Noun	1.	bight - a loop in a rope
	2.	bight - a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
	3.	bight - a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"
	4.	bight - the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
Verb	1.	bight - fasten with a bight

L, angle, apex, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bend, bifurcation, boca, cant, chevron, coin, corner, cove, crank, creek, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, estuary, euripus, fjord, fork, frith, furcation, gulf, gut, harbor, hook, inflection, inlet, knee, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nook, point, quoin, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, swerve, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag

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