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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.
See: 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.