Dictionary Entry
bight
bight is a 5-letter English word with 8 senses as verb and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 12 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1verb
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
- 2verb
A bend in a coast forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin.
- 3verb
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.
- 4noun
the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
- 5noun
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
"the Bight of Benin"
"the Great Australian Bight"
- 6noun
a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
- 7noun
a loop in a rope
- 8verb
fasten with a bight
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