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:
- Dike, the Greek goddess of moral justice, one of the three second generation Horae
- 99 Dike, an asteroidTemplate:Disambig