• IPA: /baɪt/

bight (plural bights)

1. A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow

   the bight of a horse's knee

   the bight of an elbow

   • 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166

     I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.

2. An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
3. (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
4. A curve in a rope
   • 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524 ↗, part I:

     I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.

• Bight of Benin
• Bight of Biafra
• German Bight
• Great Australian Bight
• New York Bight

• Russian: изги́б
• Spanish: curva, corva (of knee), sangradura (of elbow)

• German: Bucht
• Italian: ansa, baia
• Portuguese: enseada
• Russian: бу́хта
• Spanish: ensenada

• Russian: петля
• Spanish: lazo