The word is derived from
Old English
Old English ( or , or ), 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 developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
''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, or it may refer to a very open bay formed by such a feature. Such bays are typically broad, open, shallow and only slightly recessed.
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, 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 r ...
, 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
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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 (comics), a character from DC Comics
* ''Byte'' (magazine), a computer industry magazine
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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 un ...
, a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications
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