Harbour vs Bight - What's the difference?
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(en noun) (British, Canada)
(obsolete, uncountable) Shelter, refuge.
A place of shelter or refuge.
(obsolete) A house of the zodiac.
* Late 14th century: To ech of hem his tyme and his seson, / As thyn herberwe chaungeth lowe or heighe — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin’s Tale’, Canterbury Tales
A sheltered area for ships; a piece of water adjacent to land in which ships may stop to load and unload.
(astrology) The mansion of a heavenly body.
A mixing box for materials in glass-working.
To provide shelter or refuge for.
* Bishop Burnet
* Rowe
To accept, as with a belief.
* {{quote-news
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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 ,
Harbour is a related term of bight.
As nouns the difference between harbour and bight
is that harbour is (obsolete|uncountable) shelter, refuge while bight is a corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.As a verb harbour
is to provide shelter or refuge for.harbour
English
Alternative forms
* herberwe (obsolete) * herborough (obsolete) * harbor (now US)Noun
(wikipedia harbour)- The neighbourhood is a well-known harbour for petty thieves.
- The city has an excellent natural harbour .
Derived terms
* harbourage * harbourmaster * unharbouredVerb
(en verb)- The docks, which once harboured''' tall ships, now '''harbour only petty thieves.
- The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
- Let not your gentle breast harbour one thought of outrage.
- That scientist harbours the belief that God created humans.
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See also
* dock * havenbight
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.