Dyke

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Dyke or Dike may refer to:

• Dike (construction), either a long wall or bank built to keep out the sea or enclose or separate land, or the ditch from which the material was dug, or the combination of the two
• Dike (geology), a long mass of minerals, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata
• Dyke (slang), a slang term, sometimes offensive, for a woman who is attracted to other women, a lesbian
• Dikes, a term for diagonal pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others

Dyke or Dykes is the name of:

• Dykes (surname), a British surname found particularly in northern England.
• van Dyke, a surname of Dutch origin
• Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC and current Chairman of Brentford Football Club
• William D. Dyke
• Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet
• Dyke Baronets
• Hugh Dykes, The Lord Dykes, a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
• Keilen Dykes, American football player
• John Bacchus Dykes, an English clergyman and hymnist
• John and Jennie Dyke, American aircraft designers

Dyke or Dike may refer to the following places or features:

• Dike, Iowa, Small town located in eastern Iowa
• Dyke, Lincolnshire
• Car Dyke, a Roman boundary ditch in Eastern England
• Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales
• Wansdyke (earthwork), divides old Wessex from the lands south west of it
• Devil's Dyke, one of several ancient embankments or ditches (or both):
  • Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire
  • Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire
  • Devil's Dyke, Sussex
  • Devil's Dyke in Nithsdale, Scotland

Dike may also refer to:

• Dike (mythology), the Greek goddess of moral justice, one of the three second generation Horae
• 99 Dike, an asteroid
• D-Yikes!, an episode of South Park