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
• Dyke (river) is a ditch or a channel used for draining land
• Diagonal pliers ('Dikes'), a tool
• Dyke (lesbian), a slang term used for lesbian

Dyke, and its plural, may also refer to:

• Dykes (surname) originating from Dykesfield, Cumbria in the northern part of England
• Van Dyke, a surname of dutch origins
• Greg Dyke, former Director General of the BBC and current Chairman of Brentford Football Club
• William D. Dyke
• William Hart Dyke
• Hugh Dykes, The Lord Dykes, a Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom
• John Bacchus Dykes, an English clergyman and hymnist
• Dyke, Lincolnshire
• Car Dyke, a Roman boundary ditch in Eastern England
• Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing England and Wales
• Wansdyke (earthwork), divides old Wessex from the lands south west of it
• Devil's Dyke, runs along the side of the valley in Nithsdale, Scotland
• Watsdyke, an extension of Offa's dyke built at a later period.

Dike may also refer to:

• Dike, the Greek goddess of moral justice, one of the three second generation Horae
• 99 Dike, an asteroid