The word is derived from
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''byht'' (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”). In modern English, bight may refer to:
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Bight (geography)
In geography, a bight is a concave bend or curvature in a coastline, river or other geographical feature (such as a cliff), or it may refer to a very open bay formed by such a feature. Such bays are typically broad, open, shallow and only slight ...
, recess of a coast, bay, or other curved feature
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Bight (knot)
In knot tying, a bight is a curved section or slack part between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn.. "Any slack part of a rope between the two ends, particularly when curved or looped." A knot that can be tied using only the bight of a ro ...
, a curved section, slack part, or loop in rope (used in the terminology of knot-tying)
See also
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* Canto Bight, a fictional city in ''
Star Wars: The Last Jedi''
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Bite (disambiguation)
A bite is a wound received from the mouth of an animal or human; it is also a verb describing that action.
Bite or BITE may also refer to:
Related to biting
* Biting, the process of chewing or mastication, whereby food is crushed and ground by ...
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Byte (disambiguation)
A byte is a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications that most commonly consists of eight bits.
Byte may also refer to:
* ''Byte'' (magazine), a computer industry magazine
* Byte (song), a song by Martin Garrix and Brooks
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Byte
The byte is a unit of digital information that most commonly consists of eight bits. Historically, the byte was the number of bits used to encode a single character of text in a computer and for this reason it is the smallest addressable unit ...
, a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications
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