Origin: Germanic Old English suffix
Bight has 6 different meanings across 2 categories:
a loop in a rope
a bend or curve (especially in a coastline)
a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline
"the Bight of Benin"
"the Great Australian Bight"
the middle part of a slack rope (as distinguished from its ends)
A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
fasten with a bight