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bahyt

  • n  a loop in a rope
  • n  a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
  • n  a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
  • n  the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
  • v  fasten with a bight

  • Toy Tiger (Universal-International) opens with a snarl that turns out to be worse than its bight.
  • M-G-M poured $2,400,000 into the latest voyage, refitted the venerable Cotton Blossom with a bight profusion of crisply Technicolored costumes, sets and vistas.
  • Farther north along the coast, other Chinese occupied Sinchang on the bight of land that leads into Hangchow port.
News & Articles

  • FHS GRADUATION 2013: 'Carpe the heck out of the diem'
    SPECIAL SECTION inside this week's Reporter includes the Class of 2013 from Foxboro High School, as well as Foxboro residents graduating from other high schools. Also in this week's issue, full coverage of FHS Class Bight and lots of photos.
    June 13, 2013 - Foxboro Reporter
Quotes

  • Martin Ferguson in Reuters India
    The other three areas are in the central Great Australian Bight off South Australia ...... and are truly new frontiers, where no permits are currently held,Ferguson told the Australian Petroleum Production and Exploration Association (APPEA)...
  • Sonny Perdue in Access North Georgia
    Perdue called it "a late bight quick fix" that was bad for Georgians.

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