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say it: bahyt
bight is a noun and verb meaning "a loop in a rope". It carries 5 recorded senses.
a loop in a rope
a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
“the Bight of Benin”
“the Great Australian Bight”
fasten with a bight
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for bight come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.