Dyke

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Dyke and Dike are alternate spellings which may both refer to:

  • Dike (construction), a long wall built to keep out the sea or enclose land or generally to enclose or separate land
  • Dike (geology), a long mass of minerals, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata
  • Diagonal pliers, Dikes, a tool
  • Dyke (lesbian), a slang, and often derogatory, term for lesbian.

Dyke, and its plural, may also refer to:

  • Dykes (surname) originating from Dykesfield, Cumbria in the northern part of England
  • Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC and current Chairman of Brentford Football Club
  • Hugh Dykes, The Lord Dykes, a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
  • Dyke, Lincolnshire is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bourne, Lincolnshire
  • Car Dyke, a Roman boundary ditch in Eastern England.
  • Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing England and Wales

Dike may also refer to:

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