| Bight 1. (n.) A bend in a shoreline forming an open bay; as, the Bight of Benin. 2. (n.) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow. 3. (n.) 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. Thesaurus Entries L, angle, apex, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bend, bifurcation, boca, cant, chevron, coin, corner, cove, crank, creek, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, estuary, euripus, fjord, fork, frith, furcation, gulf, gut, harbor, hook, inflection, inlet, knee, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nook, point, quoin, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, swerve, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag |