Bight vs Firth - What's the difference?
bight | firth | Related terms |
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
*1905 ,
An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
A curve in a rope
*1899 ,
Bight is a related term of firth.
As nouns the difference between bight and firth
is that bight is a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow while firth is an arm of the sea; a.bight
English
Noun
(en noun)- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- I could see every rib, the joints of their limbs were like knots in a rope; each had an iron collar on his neck, and all were connected together with a chain whose bights swung between them, rhythmically clinking.