DCHP-1 Online
bight 
n. an indentation or bay in the edge of pack ice.
See also: pack ice
- 1850 We found ourselves in a deep bight of the ice.
- 1850 (1851) A bight is a bay in the outline of the ice.
- 1850 (1852) 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.