Literary notes about bight (AI summary)
The word “bight” functions with remarkable versatility in literature. In some instances it denotes a geographic feature—a recess or bay in a coastline, as seen in texts referring to places like the Bight of Benin or the Great Australian Bight [1][2][3][4]. In other contexts, it describes a loop or bend in a rope, a meaning crucial to nautical and knot-tying instructions [5][6][7][8]. This dual usage allows authors to evoke both concrete landscapes and precise technical detail, enhancing the imagery and the sense of place or procedure in their narratives [9][10][11].
- 'Ay, bo', an' a rum rig it was too, sure enough,' said Harry; 'the very same time I told you on, i' the Bight o' Benin.'
— from The Green Hand: Adventures of a Naval Lieutenant by George Cupples - If Badagry be included in Youriba, the southern boundary will be the Bight of Benin.
— from Travels of Richard and John Lander into the interior of Africa, for the discovery of the course and termination of the Niger From unpublished documents in the possession of the late Capt. John William Barber Fullerton ... with a prefatory analysis of the previous travels of Park, Denham, Clapperton, Adams, Lyon, Ritchie, &c. into the hitherto unexplored countries of Africa by Robert Huish - 2. FROM PERTH TO ADELAIDE, AROUND THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN BIGHT.
— from Explorations in Australia 1.-Explorations in search of Dr. Leichardt and party. 2.-From Perth to Adelaide, around the great Australian bight. 3.-From Champion Bay, across the desert to the telegraph and to Adelaide. With an appendix on the condition of Western Australia. by Forrest, John Forrest, Baron - The latter is the only important inlet upon the Atlantic coast, and divides into two branches,—the Bight of Biafra and the Bight of Benin.
— from The World and Its People, Book VII: Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam - The Figure of Eight Knot. Make a bight as before.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - Back the end around the standing part and up through the bight and draw tight.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - To make this knot, form a bight by laying the end of a rope on top of and across the standing part.
— from Knots, Splices and Rope Work A Practical Treatise Giving Complete and Simple Directions for Making All the Most Useful and Ornamental Knots in Common Use, with Chapters on Splicing, Pointing, Seizing, Serving, etc. by A. Hyatt (Alpheus Hyatt) Verrill - Pass the end up through the bight around the standing part and down through the bight again.
— from Boy Scouts Handbook by Boy Scouts of America - Of the whole of the low shores of the island, only this bight remained to be revealed.
— from The Ebb-Tide: A Trio And Quartette by Robert Louis Stevenson - Take a turn round that stump with the bight of it!
— from The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Complete by Mark Twain - IX So th' one for wrong, the other strives for right, And each to deadly shame would drive his foe: 75 The cruell steele so greedily doth bight
— from Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I by Edmund Spenser
