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bight

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5 lettersPronunciation /baɪt/Part of speech verb, nounSorted bghitStarts with BEnds with T0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. fasten with a bight

Word origin

From Middle English bight, biȝt, byȝt (also bought, bowght, bouȝt; see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-West Germanic *buhti, from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Germanic *beuganą (“to bend, bow”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewgʰ- (“to bend”).

Used in a sentence

  • the bight of a horse's knee
  • the bight of an elbow
  • I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.

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