What is the Bight of a rope?

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What is the Bight of a rope?

In rope terminology, a bight is a curved, slack portion of the rope—the inside bend of a loop or the U-shaped section you form when you fold rope back on itself. This part is what you work with when creating knots or passing rope through a loop, without using the very end of the rope. It’s distinct from the free end (the end you move to tighten) and from the standing part (the portion under tension away from the knot). That curved, loop-like section best fits the idea of the bight.

In rope terminology, a bight is a curved, slack portion of the rope—the inside bend of a loop or the U-shaped section you form when you fold rope back on itself. This part is what you work with when creating knots or passing rope through a loop, without using the very end of the rope. It’s distinct from the free end (the end you move to tighten) and from the standing part (the portion under tension away from the knot). That curved, loop-like section best fits the idea of the bight.

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