bight
英 [baɪt]
美[baɪt]
- n. 海湾，绳圈；曲线
英英释意
- 1. a loop in a rope
- 2. a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- 3. a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline;
- "the Bight of Benin"
- "the Great Australian Bight"
- 4. the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)