Skip to main content
Glite Dictionary
🪢 A rope loop 🪢 To loop rope 🌊 A wide bay
bight

bight

9.9
A loop in a rope, often the middle when slack
  • noun
  • /baɪt/
  • Specialized
translation icon : bucle

Examples

  • "How do you cast it?" The hunter took the coil of rope from Hael and once again held the noose in his right hand, the greater coil in his left with a large bight of slack between.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • With a snap of his wrist, he sent a bight snaking along the length of the rope, and the noose leapt off the stalk, and he recoiled it.

    Fiction book (1990)

  • To create a loop in the rope, make a bight and secure it with a knot.

  • The sailor explained how to properly tie a knot using the bight of the rope.

  • He formed a bight in the line to keep it from tangling while fishing.

Compounds

Bight of Benin
8.6

A wide bay on the west coast of Africa by the Gulf of Guinea

Great Australian Bight
7.2

A large open bay on Australia's southern coast known for rough seas and high cliffs

Surface Forms

bight singular
bights plural

Etymology

Bight comes from an old English word byht meaning 'bend' or 'bay'. A helpful image is a rope making a soft 'bend' like a small bay, which is why a bight is the loose loop or middle part of a rope.