bight

1) A bend in a river.

1699 in the Bite below turnman hall is but 5 foot water, Hemingbrough. Not uncommon as a minor place-name element, as in dubylbyght and Doddilbight, the name of fields in Huddersfield which formerly adjoined a double bend in the river Colne.

dates 1503 1699

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