BIGHT
\bˈa͡ɪt], \bˈaɪt], \b_ˈaɪ_t]\
Definitions of BIGHT
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
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a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
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a loop in a rope
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a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline; "the Bight of Benin"; "the Great Australian Bight"
By Princeton University
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the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
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a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
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a loop in a rope
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
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A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
By Oddity Software
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A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
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A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the of Benin.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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A small bay; the loop or coil of a rope; the inward bent of a horse's chambrel, and the bent of the fore knees.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
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