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Dyke

Dyke or '''Dike''' may refer to:

General

- 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 lesbian
- Dikes, diagonal pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others
- Dyking out, a slang term for a uniform or dressing assistant at Virginia Military Institute#Ratline|Virginia Military Institute and other military schools or colleges
- 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

Names

- Dykes (surname), a British surname found particularly in northern England.
- van Dyke, a surname of Dutch origin
- Dyke Baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England

People

- Dick Van Dyke, American actor
- 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
- John Bacchus Dykes, an English clergyman and hymnist
- John and Jennie Dyke, American aircraft designers
- Keilen Dykes, American football player
- William D. Dyke
- Sir William Hart Dyke, 7th Baronet
- John Dyke, lead singer of German synthpop band Dyko

Places

Settlements

- Dike, Iowa, small town in the United States
- Dyke, Virginia, small town in the southern United States
- Dyke, Lincolnshire

Earthworks

- 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, Nithsdale, Scotland Category:Dutch loanwords

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