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A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.

rmed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

An eye formed in the bight or bend of a shroud or stay to go over the masthead; also, a rope to which certain parts of rigging, as dead-eyes, are secured.

The bights formed by the several turns of a cable. Totten.

s it unwinds from the other, and a pulley sustaining the weight to be lifted hangs in the bight of the rope. It is an ancient example of a differential motion.

be passed, or which a hook can be hooked into; an eye, as of metal; a staple; a noose; a bight. That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop To hang a doubt on. Shak.

a kind of block with an opening in one side to receive the bight of a rope.

A rope having its ends made fast so that a purchase can be hooked to the bight; also, a rope made fast in the center so that both ends can be used.

ecured at the ends to the heads of the foremast and mainmast with thimbles spliced to its bight into which the stay tackles hook.

nd its middle, fixed transversely in the eye of a rope to be secured to any other loop or bight or ring; a kind of button or frog capable of being readily engaged and disengaged for temporary purposes.

wall knot; a wale. Wall knot, a knot made by unlaying the strands of a rope, and making a bight with the first strand, then passing the second over the end of the first, and the third over the end of the second and through the bight of the first; a wale knot. Wall knots may be single or double, crowned or double-crowne…