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bight
O.E.
byht
"bend, angle, corner" (related to
bow
), from P.Gmc.
*bukhtis
(cf. M.L.G.
bucht,
Ger.
Bucht,
Du.
bocht
). Geological sense of "indentation on a coastline" is from 1481.