Used for bending small sheets to the clews of sails, which present bights ready for the hitch.
Make a single wall knot with the other three strands round the said bights and shroud; haul the knot taut first and stretch the whole; then heave down the bights close: it will look like the ordinary shroud knot.
The important sea-coast towns lie mostly in deep bights or recesses at the mouths of rivers, sometimes two or three miles up, with a bar having but ten feet of water, and currents that render difficult the pilotage of sailing-vessels.
So besides the usual anchors, he planted kedges broad off on his ship's bows, with hawsers hanging in bights under the water, and leading to her quarters.
Welcome voices were now heard passing the word aft from the tank that the bights were cleared, and to pay out.
The bights or bays lying between them are backed by sandy beaches.
Now then, Bill, you stand by to haul Mr Lascelles out of the thick of these bights and turns whilst I holds 'em up.
Mr. Blunt having loosened the chains, so as to let their bights fall into the sea, the ship slowly drifted astern, and rode by her cables.
To these kedges lighter chains were secured; and when all the bights were hove-in, to as equal a strain as possible.
Make fast end a at c, and end d at e, cinching up strongly on the bights that come through the cinch rings.
Leave the bights of the rope (a, a) of sufficient length so they can be looped around the burden and over the horns.
The old belief was that the fruit was produced on a palm growing below the sea, whose fronds, according to Malay seamen, were sometimes seen in quietbights on the Sumatran coast, especially in the Lampong Bay.
Insurances to any amount--and I speak from a knowledge of the fact--may be effected in the various insurance offices in London with a lighter premium than is demanded for the Bights of Benin or Bengal.
There were the flipping bights of the coiled hawser to guard against as the men paid it out.
Men are caught by those bights and ground to horrible death against the snubbing-post.
The simplest of all shortenings consists of a loop taken in the rope with the bights seized to the standing part (Fig.
Now pull all ends tight and work the bights up smooth and snug; cut off ends and the knot is complete.
The Turk's Head may be drawn as tight as desired around the rope, or rod, by working up the slack and drawing all bights taut.
It was evident that she had been along the Gold Coast, and round the Bights of Benin and Biafra.
Neither was there movement of the ship and its rigging; the hanging bights of ropes were rigid, while a breaking sea just abaft the main chains remained poised, curled, its white crest a frozen pillow of foam.
Forward the watch sat about in coils of rope and sheltered nooks or walked the deck unsteadily, and a glance aloft showed the captain his rigging hanging in bights and yards pointed every way.
We met at the Woman's Bights Convention on the day of the opening of the half world's Temperance Convention, and had all decided to be content with our own Temperance Convention, which had passed off so quietly and triumphantly.
On the refusal of five magistrates of the Corporation Council of Norfolk to receive the testimony of a negro, they were arrested on a process issued under the Civil Bights Bill, and held to bail to appear before the District Court.
In this case, it will often be sufficient to put the helm hard up, flatten in the head sheets, or haul their bights to windward, and haul up the spanker.
Then take one of the bights formed by the clove-hitch and put it over the other.
Make two long bights in a rope, which shall overlay one another.
Unlay the end of a rope for a considerable distance, and with the strands form three bights down the side of the rope, holding them fast with the left hand.
Have the earings bent and secured as before described, and the bights of the head-earings hitched to the buntlines.
Clinch the ends to the foot of the sail, bight them around under the sail and rack the bights to their standing parts, and stop the head of the sail to the standing parts below the rackings.
Lay the ends of one rope back upon their own part, and single wall the other three strands round the bights of the first three and the standing part.
Then cross the bights again, and put the end round again, under, and up through the bight which is underneath.
Bring the two small bights together, and put the hook of a tackle through them both.
In handling a small whale, Tom told me, they would thus rip the blubber off in long strips, rolling the carcass over and over in the bights of the holding chains.
This began to worry me and finally I lashed the tiller--fastening it in the bights of two ropes prepared for that purpose, and crept back into the cabin again.
On dismounting, each trooper, after placing the bights of the reins on the horse's neck, and before stepping forward to take the position of stand to horse (par.
The bights of the reins rest on the neck near the pommel of the saddle.
Begin by bending the rope to form two bights as in A, Fig.
If the rope is to be permanently shortened pass the ends through the first and second bights at the bend as in E, and the knot will hold for any length of time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bights" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
