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We found 36 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word bight:
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General dictionaries General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. bight: Compact Oxford English Dictionary [home, info]
  2. bight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language [home, info]
  3. bight: Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary, 11th Edition [home, info]
  4. Bight: Wiktionary [home, info]
  5. bight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed. [home, info]
  6. bight: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus [home, info]
  7. bight: Infoplease Dictionary [home, info]
  8. bight: Dictionary.com [home, info]
  9. bight: Online Etymology Dictionary [home, info]
  10. bight: UltraLingua English Dictionary [home, info]
  11. Bight (geography), Bight (knot), Bight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia [home, info]
  12. Bight: Online Plain Text English Dictionary [home, info]
  13. bight: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition [home, info]
  14. bight: Rhymezone [home, info]
  15. Bight: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
  16. bight: Webster's 1828 Dictionary [home, info]
  17. bight: All About Homonyms [home, info]
  18. bight: Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition [home, info]
  19. Bight: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898) [home, info]
  20. Bight: 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
  21. bight: Free Dictionary [home, info]
  22. The Bight: Columbia Gazetteer of North America [home, info]
  23. bight: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words [home, info]
  24. bight: Mnemonic Dictionary [home, info]
  25. bight: WordNet 1.7 Vocabulary Helper [home, info]
  26. bight: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus [home, info]
  27. bight: Dictionary/thesaurus [home, info]

Computing dictionaries Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bight: Encyclopedia [home, info]

Medicine dictionaries Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bight: online medical dictionary [home, info]

Miscellaneous dictionaries Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bight: Wordcraft Dictionary [home, info]

Science dictionaries Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bight: Biological Sciences Dictionary [home, info]

Sports dictionaries Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bight: Terra.org's Sailing Terms [home, info]

Tech dictionaries Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bight: Book Binding [home, info]
  2. bight: DOD Dictionary of Military Terms [home, info]
  3. BIGHT: Glossary of Nautical Terms [home, info]
  4. bight: SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language [home, info]

Quick definitions (bight)

▸ noun:  the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
▸ noun:  a broad bay formed by an indentation (a bight) in the shoreline ("The Bight of Benin")
▸ noun:  a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
▸ noun:  a loop in a rope
▸ verb:  fasten with a bight
▸ Word origin

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