DCHP-3

bight

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

an indentation or bay in the edge of pack ice.

Quotations

1850
A bight is a bay in the outline of the ice.
1850
Mr. Gravill had lately ranged the Pack edge as far south as Disco, and found not a single opening except the bight, up which we had been steering last night.
1850
We found ourselves in a deep bight of the ice.