(n) :
a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow; an area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
"I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the C?vennes)"
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(n) :
a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow; an area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
"I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the C?vennes)"