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terminology of knot-tying)
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bights Canto Bight, a
fictional city in Star Wars: The...
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qualifies as a
bight.
Ashley (1944)
treats bights and
loops as distinct,
stating that a
curve "no
narrower than a semicircle" is a
bight,
while an open...
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classified according to the
number of
leads and
bights, as well as the
method of construction. The
number of
bights is the
number of
crossings around the cir****ference...
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Bight of Biafra, also
known as the
Bight of Bonny, is a
bight off the west-central
African coast, in the
easternmost part of the Gulf of Guinea. The...
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slightly recessed.
Bights are
distinguished from sounds, in that
sounds are much deeper. Traditionally,
explorers defined a
bight as a bay that could...
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Bight of
Benin or Bay of
Benin is a
bight in the Gulf of
Guinea area on the
western African coast that
derives its name from the
historical Kingdom...
- The
Heligoland Bight, also
known as
Helgoland Bight, (German: Helgoländer Bucht) is a bay
which forms the
southern part of the
German Bight,
itself a bay...
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Windless Bight (77°42′S 167°40′E / 77.700°S 167.667°E / -77.700; 167.667 (Windless
Bight)) is a
prominent bight that
indens the
south side of Ross...
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bowline on a
bight is a knot
which makes a pair of fixed-size
loops in the
middle of a rope. Its
advantage is that it is
reasonably easy to untie...
- the
World Ocean,
including marginal seas,
areas of water,
various gulfs,
bights, bays, and straits. In many
cases it is a
matter of
tradition for a body...
