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harbour
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?h??b?/
- (Canada) IPA(key): /?h??b??/
- Rhymes: -??(?)b?(?)
Noun
harbour (plural harbours)
- Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of harbor.
Derived terms
- Rosslare Harbour
Translations
Verb
harbour (third-person singular simple present harbours, present participle harbouring, simple past and past participle harboured)
- Commonwealth of Nations standard spelling of harbor.
- The docks, which once harboured tall ships, now harbour only petty thieves.
- The bare suspicion made it treason to harbour the person suspected.
- 1707, Nicholas Rowe, The Royal Convert
- Nor let your gentle Breast harbor one Thought Of Outrage from the Kin.
References
- “harbour”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
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bight
English
Etymology
From Middle English bight, bi?t, by?t (also bought, bowght, bou?t, see bought), from Old English byht (“bend, angle, corner; bay, bight”), from Proto-Germanic *buhtiz (“bend, curve”), from Proto-Indo-European *b??g?- (“to bend”). Cognate with Scots bicht (“bight”), Dutch bocht (“bend, curve”), Low German Bucht (“bend, bay”), German Bucht (“bay, bight”), Danish bugt (“bay”), Icelandic bugða (“curve”), Albanian butë (“soft, flabby”) . Compare bought.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?t/
- Rhymes: -a?t
- Homophones: bite, by't, byte
Noun
bight (plural bights)
- A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow
- the bight of a horse's knee
- the bight of an elbow
- 1905, Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes, page 166
- I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river.
- An area of sea lying between two promontories, larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
- (geography) A bend or curve in a coastline, river, or other geographical feature.
- A curve in a rope
Related terms
- Bight of Benin
- Bight of Biafra
- German Bight
- Great Australian Bight
- New York Bight
Translations
See also
- Appendix:Parts of the knot
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