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bight

English

  1. 🔊 the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
  2. 🔊 a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
    “the Bight of Benin”
  3. 🔊 a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
  4. 🔊 a loop in a rope
  5. 🔊 fasten with a bight

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