Bight

Etymology
From byht:, from.

Noun

 * 1) A corner, bend, or angle; a hollow; as, the bight of a horse's knee; the bight of an elbow.
 * I spied a bight of meadow some way below the roadway in an angle of the river. (Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes)
 * 1) An area of sea lying between two promontories; larger than a bay, wider than a gulf
 * 2) A curve in a rope

Related terms

 * Bight of Benin
 * Great Australian Bight

Thesaurus
L, angle, apex, arm, armlet, bay, bayou, belt, bend, bifurcation, boca, cant, chevron, coin, corner, cove, crank, creek, crook, crotchet, deflection, dogleg, elbow, ell, estuary, euripus, fjord, fork, frith, furcation, gulf, gut, harbor, hook, inflection, inlet, knee, kyle, loch, mouth, narrow, narrow seas, narrows, natural harbor, nook, point, quoin, reach, road, roads, roadstead, slough, sound, strait, straits, swerve, veer, vertex, zag, zig, zigzag