The word is derived from
Old English
Old English (, ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the early Middle Ages. It was brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain, Anglo ...
''byht'' (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”). In modern English, bight may refer to:
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Bight (geography), recess of a coast, bay, or other curved feature
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Bight (knot), a curved section, slack part, or loop in rope (used in the terminology of knot-tying)
See also
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* Canto Bight, a fictional city in ''
Star Wars: The Last Jedi''
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Bite (disambiguation)
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Byte (disambiguation)
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Byte, a unit of digital information in computing and telecommunications
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