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1. The curl or loop in a rope, which may tighten or close at any time, especially if the rope is running. The term "never stand with your foot in a bite" is often heard. 2. An indentation in a coastline.
To shift the point where a bight of wire or rope makes contact. Also, cutting a short length off the working end of a halyard, so that the chafed spot that had been bearing on the masthead block sheave could be replaced by a new, fresh section.
a long curve in the coastline
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An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.
v. t.
A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.
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The bights formed by the several turns of a cable.
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A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
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A wooden pin tapering toward both ends with a groove around its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.
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The double part of a rope when folded, in distinction from the ends; that is, a round, bend, or coil not including the ends; a loop.
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A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.
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A fold or doubling of a thread, cord, rope, etc., through which another thread, cord, etc., can be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight.
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A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
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A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.
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