bights in English

noun
1
a curve or recess in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
Days after the accident, ABP issued a notice to pilots telling them they should avoid passing in bights - areas where rivers curve - and emphasising they should always clearly communicate their intentions to the pilots of other ships.

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1. General (7 matching dictionaries) Bights: Merriam-Webster.com [home, info] Bights: Collins English Dictionary [home, info] Bights: Vocabulary.com [home, info]

2. Bays can also be called lagoons, sounds, and bights

3. We found 8 dictionaries with English definitions that include the word Bights: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "Bights" is defined

4. With their secluded anchorages and bights, Anacapa and the other Channel Islands fairly beckon sailboat skippers.

5. Great Bights Mum's national animal is the whale, which frolics freely in the nation's sparkling oceans

6. The two lengths of string are held together side by side and are knotted together with two simple bights about an inch apart.

7. Recent Examples on the Web Cow Bay is one of those Bights, right where the suburbs of Dartmouth and Cole Harbour begin to fade …

8. The distinctive Bights of the body and the chink with the fingers are played normally from women by as being frequent details

9. Great Bights Mum is ranked 6,708 th in the world and 584 th in The North Pacific for Most Valuable International Artwork, with 65.64 Bank

10. An alternate method routes a flexible wire which may be of shape-memory material through the bights of pre-implanted staples and permits adjustment of the effective length of a partially installed ring.

11. About 104 miles long by 40 miles wide, with a convoluted coastline bisected by several large Bights, the island has hundreds of square miles of bonefish flats — more than can be fished in a lifetime.