bightn.

Brit.

/bʌɪt/, U.S.

/baɪt/

Forms: Old English byht, late Old English biht, Middle English begthe, Middle English beythe, Middle English bygh, Middle English byȝt, Middle English byhte, Middle English bythe, 1500s byghte, 1500s–1600s byght, 1500s– bight, 1600s beight (English regional (Cheshire)), 1600s–1800s bite, 1800s– bicht (Scottish). N.E.D. (1887) also records a form late Middle English bycht.

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Cognate with Dutch bocht bend, curve, indentation in a coast line (1599), Middle Low German bucht bend, curve, indentation in a coast line ( > German Bucht indentation in a coast line, Old Danish, Danish bugt bend, curve, indentation in a coast line), Old Icelandic -bót (in knés-bót hollow of the knee) < a derivative formation < the same base as bow n.¹ Compare bought n.¹Also attested early in place names (in sense 1), as de Bicht (c1186; now East Bight, a street name in Lincoln), Le ffidebitht (1258; now Sidebeet, Lancashire), Coubiht (1267; now Cowbit, Lincolnshire), Willewebyth (1274; now Welbeck, West Riding, Yorkshire), etc. (in the latter three examples apparently with reference to a bend in a river). Compare also Old English gebyhte bend, corner, angle.

a. A bending or curved geographical feature, as an indentation in a coast line or mass of ice, a bend in a river, etc. Also figurative.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve

bightOE

crookingc1380

curvature?a1425

bought1519

compass1545

ply1575

reflexure1578

curve1596

circumflex1601

curb1601

flexion1607

flexure1608

round1608

sinus1615

return1626

inflection1658

curvity1705

sweep1715

tarve1848

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun]

bought1480

bight1481

recess1651

plait1828

the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend

bight1481

double1594

trenda1640

wimple1818

the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf > in ice

bight1481

OE Bounds (Sawyer 1314) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 265 And lang norþ geardes þæt hit cymþ besuðan stan beorh in þone byht.

lOE Bounds (Sawyer 273) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 539 Ærest ðer sæ dic utt scæt æt þam bihtæ bætweog Igtunæ & Eastunæ.

1481 Descr. Boundaries Ripon in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 344 Sleningford Bygh.

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352^v In the byght of a bay.

1605 G. Archer Relation in Amer. Antiquarian Soc. Trans. (1805) 4 48 Here he whispered with me, that their caquassum was gott in the bites of rocks, and betweene cliffs in certayne vaynes.

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lii. 123 We found presently in the westerne bight of the Bay, a deepe River.

1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. xi. 58 In the bite of the Bay are two high and rocky Islands.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 160 In the very Bite or Nook of the Bay, there was a great Inlet of Water.

1818 W. Scoresby in Memoirs Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 266 A bight signifies a bay or sinuosity, on the border of any large mass or body of ice.

1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 30 Bights and bends in the great stream of Time.

1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 326 Far off in a bight of the mountains.

1939 S. Cloete Watch for Dawn xxv. 399 The river kept changing direction, bending this way and that, running north, south, east, and west in great bights and bends that confused him.

1956 T. Armstrong & B. Roberts Illustr. Ice Gloss. 5 Bight, an extensive crescent-shaped indentation in the ice-edge, formed either by wind or current.

2002 V. Ingegnoli Landscape Ecol. 315 (caption) The creation of a small lake in the bight of the river Lambro.

b. A stretch of water between two headlands; a bay, esp. a shallow or slightly receding bay. Also figurative.Frequently in the names of bays.

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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf

bay1385

bosomc1400

gulfc1400

gouffre1477

break?1520

reach1526

bight1555

opening1576

sine1605

breach1611

cod1611

traversea1645

sinus1684

embayment1815

1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 350^v There is a byght or bay as thowgh it were a harborowe.

1642 A. J. Tasman Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1694) i. 140 They were then within the Struis Hook, standing into the Bight Bay of Good Hope.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 7 We run boldly into the Bay, and came to an Anchor in that which they call the Bite, or little Bay.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Bight..is also a small bay between two points of land.

1864 D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 43 I see there is a bight of blue in the sky.

1878 A. K. Johnston Africa 155 Fernando Po near the head of the Bight of Biafra.

1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 190 I spied a bight of meadow..in an angle of the river.

1921 Geografisker Annaler 3 168 A study by Leverkinck of the water-level in the German Bight.

1940 E. Muir Story & Fable ii. 77 The house looked down from the bare hillside on Inganess Bay, a large, semi-circular bight, beyond which the open Atlantic quivered, an always straight line.

2007 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 22 July 112 The spot is acknowledged by geographers as being the same distance from the Great Australian Bight, the Gulf of Carpentaria..and Joseph Bonaparte Gulf.

†2. A bend, crook, esp. one in a body or limb; (also) the fact of bending or being bent, crookedness. Obsolete.In quot. ?1523: a fork in the branches of a tree.

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the world > space > direction > [noun] > straight or constant direction > deviation from > a turn

crookingc1380

turnc1390

bightc1400

crook1486

turnagain1545

creek1596

creeking1610

return1610

sinuositya1774

bend1879

c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1349 Bi þe byȝt al of þe þyȝes.

c1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 190 In the byȝt of the harme.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii^v Dresse the wode and bowe it clene, and cutte it at euery byght.

1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 5 Beight of the Elbow: Bending of the Elbow. Chesh.

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 154/1 The Ham, or Bight, or bought, is the inward bent or bending of the Cambrel; it is also used for the bent of the Knees in the foremost Legs. [Also in later dictionaries.]

3. Nautical. A length of rope when looped or folded, esp. distinguishing the body of the rope from its ends; a loop in a length of rope.

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the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > loop > of rope, chain, or cloth

hank1388

linkc1450

boughta1475

eye1584

bight1622

loop1718

ropemaker's eye1854

1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxvi. 88 With our Capsten [we] stretched the two byghtes.

1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Bight, the double part of a rope when it is folded..as, her anchor hooked the bight of our cable.

1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 182 Magnus hitch. Take two round turns through the ring of an anchor, &c. and bring the end over the standing part, then round the ring and through the bight.

1812 Examiner 9 Nov. 720/1 The bite of a whale-line having..caught his leg.

1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 290 Catch him round the neck with the bight of a rope.

1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down 280 Bight, the loop of a rope.

1998 Boards May 111/2 A bight is simply a length of rope, as held between two hands.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bight
释义	bightn. Brit. /bʌɪt/, U.S. /baɪt/ Forms: Old English byht, late Old English biht, Middle English begthe, Middle English beythe, Middle English bygh, Middle English byȝt, Middle English byhte, Middle English bythe, 1500s byghte, 1500s–1600s byght, 1500s– bight, 1600s beight (English regional (Cheshire)), 1600s–1800s bite, 1800s– bicht (Scottish). N.E.D. (1887) also records a form late Middle English bycht. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Dutch bocht bend, curve, indentation in a coast line (1599), Middle Low German bucht bend, curve, indentation in a coast line ( > German Bucht indentation in a coast line, Old Danish, Danish bugt bend, curve, indentation in a coast line), Old Icelandic -bót (in knés-bót hollow of the knee) < a derivative formation < the same base as bow n.¹ Compare bought n.¹Also attested early in place names (in sense 1), as de Bicht (c1186; now East Bight, a street name in Lincoln), Le ffidebitht (1258; now Sidebeet, Lancashire), Coubiht (1267; now Cowbit, Lincolnshire), Willewebyth (1274; now Welbeck, West Riding, Yorkshire), etc. (in the latter three examples apparently with reference to a bend in a river). Compare also Old English gebyhte bend, corner, angle. 1. a. A bending or curved geographical feature, as an indentation in a coast line or mass of ice, a bend in a river, etc. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [noun] > a curve bightOE crookingc1380 curvature?a1425 bought1519 compass1545 ply1575 reflexure1578 curve1596 circumflex1601 curb1601 flexion1607 flexure1608 round1608 sinus1615 return1626 inflection1658 curvity1705 sweep1715 tarve1848 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] bought1480 bight1481 recess1651 plait1828 the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > system > [noun] > bend bight1481 double1594 trenda1640 wimple1818 the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf > in ice bight1481 OE Bounds (Sawyer 1314) in D. Hooke Worcs. Anglo-Saxon Charter-bounds (1990) 265 And lang norþ geardes þæt hit cymþ besuðan stan beorh in þone byht. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 273) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1885) I. 539 Ærest ðer sæ dic utt scæt æt þam bihtæ bætweog Igtunæ & Eastunæ. 1481 Descr. Boundaries Ripon in J. T. Fowler Acts Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1875) 344 Sleningford Bygh. 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 352^v In the byght of a bay. 1605 G. Archer Relation in Amer. Antiquarian Soc. Trans. (1805) 4 48 Here he whispered with me, that their caquassum was gott in the bites of rocks, and betweene cliffs in certayne vaynes. 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea lii. 123 We found presently in the westerne bight of the Bay, a deepe River. 1685 B. Ringrose Bucaniers Amer. iv. xi. 58 In the bite of the Bay are two high and rocky Islands. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World i. 160 In the very Bite or Nook of the Bay, there was a great Inlet of Water. 1818 W. Scoresby in Memoirs Wernerian Nat. Hist. Soc. 2 266 A bight signifies a bay or sinuosity, on the border of any large mass or body of ice. 1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 30 Bights and bends in the great stream of Time. 1876 W. Morris Story of Sigurd iii. 326 Far off in a bight of the mountains. 1939 S. Cloete Watch for Dawn xxv. 399 The river kept changing direction, bending this way and that, running north, south, east, and west in great bights and bends that confused him. 1956 T. Armstrong & B. Roberts Illustr. Ice Gloss. 5 Bight, an extensive crescent-shaped indentation in the ice-edge, formed either by wind or current. 2002 V. Ingegnoli Landscape Ecol. 315 (caption) The creation of a small lake in the bight of the river Lambro. b. A stretch of water between two headlands; a bay, esp. a shallow or slightly receding bay. Also figurative.Frequently in the names of bays. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > bay or gulf bay1385 bosomc1400 gulfc1400 gouffre1477 break?1520 reach1526 bight1555 opening1576 sine1605 breach1611 cod1611 traversea1645 sinus1684 embayment1815 1555 R. Eden Two Viages into Guinea in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 350^v There is a byght or bay as thowgh it were a harborowe. 1642 A. J. Tasman Jrnl. in Acct. Several Late Voy. (1694) i. 140 They were then within the Struis Hook, standing into the Bight Bay of Good Hope. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 7 We run boldly into the Bay, and came to an Anchor in that which they call the Bite, or little Bay. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Bight..is also a small bay between two points of land. 1864 D. G. Mitchell Wet Days at Edgewood 43 I see there is a bight of blue in the sky. 1878 A. K. Johnston Africa 155 Fernando Po near the head of the Bight of Biafra. 1879 R. L. Stevenson Trav. with Donkey 190 I spied a bight of meadow..in an angle of the river. 1921 Geografisker Annaler 3 168 A study by Leverkinck of the water-level in the German Bight. 1940 E. Muir Story & Fable ii. 77 The house looked down from the bare hillside on Inganess Bay, a large, semi-circular bight, beyond which the open Atlantic quivered, an always straight line. 2007 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 22 July 112 The spot is acknowledged by geographers as being the same distance from the Great Australian Bight, the Gulf of Carpentaria..and Joseph Bonaparte Gulf. †2. A bend, crook, esp. one in a body or limb; (also) the fact of bending or being bent, crookedness. Obsolete.In quot. ?1523: a fork in the branches of a tree. ΘΚΠ the world > space > direction > [noun] > straight or constant direction > deviation from > a turn crookingc1380 turnc1390 bightc1400 crook1486 turnagain1545 creek1596 creeking1610 return1610 sinuositya1774 bend1879 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 1349 Bi þe byȝt al of þe þyȝes. c1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 190 In the byȝt of the harme. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xlii^v Dresse the wode and bowe it clene, and cutte it at euery byght. 1673 J. Ray N. Countrey Words in Coll. Eng. Words 5 Beight of the Elbow: Bending of the Elbow. Chesh. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 154/1 The Ham, or Bight, or bought, is the inward bent or bending of the Cambrel; it is also used for the bent of the Knees in the foremost Legs. [Also in later dictionaries.] 3. Nautical. A length of rope when looped or folded, esp. distinguishing the body of the rope from its ends; a loop in a length of rope. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > loop > of rope, chain, or cloth hank1388 linkc1450 boughta1475 eye1584 bight1622 loop1718 ropemaker's eye1854 1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxxvi. 88 With our Capsten [we] stretched the two byghtes. 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Bight, the double part of a rope when it is folded..as, her anchor hooked the bight of our cable. 1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 182 Magnus hitch. Take two round turns through the ring of an anchor, &c. and bring the end over the standing part, then round the ring and through the bight. 1812 Examiner 9 Nov. 720/1 The bite of a whale-line having..caught his leg. 1875 F. T. Buckland Log-bk. Fisherman 290 Catch him round the neck with the bight of a rope. 1933 P. A. Eaddy Hull Down 280 Bight, the loop of a rope. 1998 Boards May 111/2 A bight is simply a length of rope, as held between two hands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.OE
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