Cameroon is a country in west-central Africa on the bight of Biafra. From LearnThat.org. [The American Heritage« Dictionary of the English Language (fourth edition)]
The bight of Benin. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
The Great Australian bight. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Figure I is a double bight, which is laid over the top of the pack, so that the two loops hang, well down, half on each side. From Wordnik.com. [Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies] Reference
"bight" -- surrounded by ships and the men who sail them -- I might almost have been a hardy newspaper man!. From Wordnik.com. [Shandygaff] Reference
"bight," which gave us, at high tide, a few square feet of sand-beach between the sea and the bottom of the hill. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years Before the Mast] Reference
Above bight and bay and island tower the mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
You will note that the bight is used -- two parts, or loop. From Wordnik.com. [The Dead Men's Song Being the Story of a Poem and a Reminiscent Sketch of its Author Young Ewing Allison] Reference
It is situated in the bight of the bay, eastward of Bonthian. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
One end of which was secured by a bight of the trysail brailing. From Wordnik.com. [The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2] Reference
I threaded a long bight under his arms and tied it behind his neck. From Wordnik.com. [The Forever War]
I read one teacher describing them as little and bight-eyed little angels. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2005] Reference
I found that we had struck the south coast deep in the bight of Encounter Bay. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
"The line has fallen just over his shoulders, and he has got the bight of it.". From Wordnik.com. [The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea] Reference
Then toggle or hook the gun-purchase to the outer bight of the slings, and sway away. From Wordnik.com. [Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition.] Reference
She had no strength left, but he had passed a bight beneath her arms and she was alive. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
We then bore away westward, in order to trace the land round the head of the deep bight. From Wordnik.com. [A Source Book of Australian History] Reference
I have not been able to learn that any Malay towns of importance are situated in the bight of. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
He now singled out a rein, and threw the bight with unerring aim over the antlers of the victim. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
Shark River bight was near, and in the distance the cocoa-palms of the Northwest Cape could be made out. From Wordnik.com. [Dick in the Everglades] Reference
That's a cow whale, and this bight is her nursery, and she is up on the beach for her calf's convenience. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858] Reference
I was deep in the bottle-neck bight of the sands, jammed on a lee shore, and a strong flood tide sweeping me on. From Wordnik.com. [The Riddle of the Sands]
It was late by the time we'd walked through the kitchen doorway, our fingers and toes stinging with frost bight. From Wordnik.com. [Vitamins] Reference
He sprang for it, whipped it up, and in a trice had put a loop in it, and made a double bight around Othman's body. From Wordnik.com. [On Land and Sea at the Dardanelles] Reference
There was a "lubber's loop" in the bight of the sheet and as the young man loosed it his arm was caught in this trap. From Wordnik.com. [Cap'n Abe, Storekeeper] Reference
The bight is fronted by a crowded range of sandy islets, from which we did not extricate ourselves until the next day. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Thence Kol steered his course out of the river to Norway and landed at Fold (2), in the bight of the "Bay," and came on. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference
Water was seen over the low land at the bottom of the bight in the South-West side of the bay, and is probably a lagoon. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
As the weight was nearly half that of a man, Regnar merely placed the bight of the rope around the object on which it had caught. From Wordnik.com. [Adrift in the Ice-Fields] Reference
A round turn; the cord, a, is passed through the bight of the cord, b, over the button, c, where it is secured by an ordinary knot. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American, Volume XXIV., No. 12, March 18, 1871 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures.] Reference
The low coast runs into another bight; and the first opening after the termination of the high land is the mouth of the river Seboo. From Wordnik.com. [The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy] Reference
The following day was spent in examining a bight, but we were prevented from penetrating to the bottom by the shoalness of the water. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1] Reference
Put your feet in the bight and hold on to the slack of the rope above your head and we'll hoist you up in regular man-of-war fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference
Soon the sweeping bight of Christchurch Bay was lying to his starboard exactly as when Tatenor's boat had veered off towards the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
This bight is a swatchway of deep water, and the Mandalay then struck the Sands on the eastern jaw of another channel into the Goodwins. From Wordnik.com. [Heroes of the Goodwin Sands] Reference
"We did get the bight of a cable over the breech, but the men could not hold it, even though they took a couple of turns around the bitts.". From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift and His Giant Cannon, or, the Longest Shots on Record] Reference
The poor fellow's hands and fingers must have been numb, for he suddenly rolled out of the half-formed bight, losing his grip upon the line. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
He took a half turn with the line around his waist, was rolling himself over into the bight of the line and it looked as if he would be saved. From Wordnik.com. [And Judas Iscariot Together with other evangelistic addresses] Reference
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