Dyke
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Dyke (normal International spelling) or Dike (normal American spelling for most meanings) can mean several things:
- Dyke, Lincolnshire is a hamlet in the civil parish of Bourne, Lincolnshire.
- A dyke / dike is a long wall built to keep out the sea or enclose land or generally to enclose or separate land (cf. Offa's Dyke)
- Dyke / Dike is another word for a ditch, especially a drainage ditch.
- Dyke is a slang term for a lesbian, and has the same spelling worldwide.
- In geology, a dyke / dike is a long mass of minerals, usually an intrusion of igneous rocks, filling up rents or fissures in the original strata.
- Dike is the Greek goddess of moral justice.
- 99 Dike is an asteroid.
- Diagonal cutters are sometimes referred to as dykes / dikes, from diagonal cutters.