Bight

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Word of the day: Bight.

In geography a bight can be simply a bend or curve - usually a bend or curve in the line between land and water. Alternatively, the term can refer to a large (and often only slightly receding) bay. It is distinguished from a sound by being shallower. Traditionally explorers defined a bight as a bay that could be sailed out of on a single tack.

Ну, и чтобы два раза не вставать - Bight. The term bight is used in knot tying to refer to any curved section, slack part, or loop between the two ends of a rope, string, or yarn. The phrase in the bight (or on a bight) means a bight of line is itself being used to make a knot. Specifically this means that the knot can be formed without access to the ends of the rope. This can be an important property for knots used in situations where the ends of the rope are inaccessible, such as forming a fixed loop in the middle of a long climbing rope.

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