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Bight
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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(0. Eng. bight, bend; cf. Ger. Bucht, a bay, and beugen, to bend), a nautical term for the loop or bent part of a rope, as distinguished from the ends; also a geographical term for a bay between two distant headlands, or with a shallow curve, e.g. the Bight of Benin, the Great Bight of Australia.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bight'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bight.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Bight'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/b/bight.html. 1910.
