Dyke (UK) or dike (US) may refer to:

General uses

Dyke (slang) ''Dyke'' is a slang term, used as a noun meaning lesbian and as an adjective describing things associated with lesbians. It originated as a homophobic slur for masculine, butch, or androgynous girls or women. Pejorative use of the word still ...

, a slang word meaning "lesbian" *

Dike (geology) A dike or dyke, in Geology, geological usage, is a sheet of rock that is formed in a Fracture (geology), fracture of a pre-existing rock body. Dikes can be either Intrusive rock, magmatic or Sedimentary rock, sedimentary in origin. Magmatic dikes ...

, a subvertical sheet-like intrusion of magma or sediment *

Dike (mythology) In Greek mythology, Dike or Dice ( or ; Greek: ) is the goddess of justice and the spirit of moral order and fair judgement as a transcendent universal ideal or based on immemorial custom, in the sense of socially enforced norms and convention ...

, ''Dikē'', the Greek goddess of moral justice * Dikes,

diagonal pliers Diagonal pliers (also known as wire cutters, diagonal cutting pliers, diagonal cutters, side cutters, dikes or Nippy cutters) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they are generally not used to grab or turn anything). The plane define ...

, also called side-cutting pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others * Dyke (automobile company), established 1899

Structures

Dyke (embankment) A levee (), dike (American English), dyke (Commonwealth English), embankment, floodbank, or stop bank is a structure that is usually earthen and that often runs parallel to the course of a river in its floodplain or along low-lying coastlin ...

or dike, a natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels, often called a levee in American English *

Ditch A ditch is a small to moderate divot created to channel water. A ditch can be used for drainage, to drain water from low-lying areas, alongside roadways or fields, or to channel water from a more distant source for plant irrigation. Ditches ar ...

, a water-filled drainage trench * A regional term for a

dry stone Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together. Dry stone structures are stable because of their construction m ...

wall

People

Dyke (surname) Dyke is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Edwin Dyke (1842–1919), English clergyman and cricketer * Greg Dyke (born 1947), former Director General of the BBC and current Chairman of Brentford Football Club * John Dyke (rugby ...

Dyke baronets The Dyke Baronetcy, of Horeham in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Baronetage of England. It was created on 3 March 1677 for Sir Thomas Dyke, 1st Baronet, Thomas Dyke, Commissioner of Public Accounts and Member of Parliament for Sussex (UK ...

, a title in the Baronetage of England *

Dykes (surname) Dykes is a British surname which is thought to originate from the hamlet of Dykesfield in Burgh-by-Sands, Cumbria in the north of England. Due to its close proximity to the English and Scottish borders, the surname Dykes has also been found in Sco ...

, a British surname found particularly in northern England

Places

Settlements

Dike, Iowa Dike is a city in Grundy County, Iowa, United States. The population was 1,304 at the 2020 census, an increase of 38% over the total of 944 residents in 2000. It is part of the Waterloo– Cedar Falls Metropolitan Statistical Area. History Dike ...

, United States *

Dykes, Missouri Dykes is an unincorporated community in southwest Texas County, Missouri, Texas County, in the U.S. state of Missouri. Dykes is located on Missouri Route 38, seven miles west of Houston, Missouri, Houston. History A post office called Dykes was es ...

, United States *

Dyke, Moray Dyke ( gd, Dìg) is a small village situated in the north of Scotland on the Moray coast, approximately 4 miles west of Forres. The origin of the name of the parish of Dyke is supposed to be the Gaelic word ''dìg'', signifying a water drain or ...

, Scotland *

Dike, Texas Dike is an unincorporated community in Hopkins County, Texas, United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country Continental United States, primarily locate ...

, United States *

Dyke, Virginia Dyke is an unincorporated community in Greene County, Virginia, United States. It is located along Virginia Secondary State Route 810. In 2020, the small store in Dyke was replaced with a new larger store and gas station. It is located near Sain ...

, United States *

Dyke, Lincolnshire Dyke is a village in the South Kesteven district of Lincolnshire, England. It is situated less than east from the A15 road, and approximately 1 mile north-east from Bourne. Dyke is within Bourne civil parish. The name Dyke arises from its l ...

, England *

Little Dyke, Nova Scotia Little Dyke is a community in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia Nova Scotia ( ; ; ) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada. It is one of the three Maritime provinces and one of the four Atlantic provinces. Nova Scot ...

, Canada

Earthworks

Car Dyke The Car Dyke was, and to a large extent still is, an long ditch which runs along the western edge of the Fens in eastern England. It is generally accepted as being of Roman invasion of Britain, Roman age and, for many centuries, to have been ta ...

, a Roman boundary ditch in Eastern England *

Devil's Dyke (disambiguation) Devil's Dyke may refer to: * Devil's Dykes, a series of Roman fortifications between Hungary and Serbia *Devil's Dyke, Cambridgeshire, an earthen barrier in eastern Cambridgeshire *Devil's Dyke, Hertfordshire, a prehistoric defensive ditch in Hert ...

, one of several ancient embankments or ditches (or both) *

Foss Dyke The Foss Dyke, or Fossdyke, connects the River Trent at Torksey to Lincoln, the county town of Lincolnshire, and may be the oldest canal in England that is still in use. It is usually thought to have been built around AD 120 by the Romans, ...

, a Roman canal in England linking the River Trent to the River Witham at Lincoln *

Offa's Dyke Offa's Dyke ( cy, Clawdd Offa) is a large linear earthwork that roughly follows the border between England and Wales. The structure is named after Offa, the Anglo-Saxon king of Mercia from AD 757 until 796, who is traditionally believed to h ...

, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales *

Wansdyke (earthwork) Wansdyke (from ''Woden's Dyke'') is a series of early medieval defensive linear earthworks in the West Country of England, consisting of a ditch and a running embankment from the ditch spoil, with the ditching facing north. There are two main ...

, dividing Wessex from the lands south west of it *

Wat's Dyke Wat's Dyke ( cy, Clawdd Wat) is a linear earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey on the River Dee estuary, passing east of Oswestry and on to Maesbury in Shropshire, England. It runs generally parallel to ...

, An earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey to Maesbury

Geological features

* The

Great Dyke The Great Dyke is a linear geological feature that trends nearly north-south through the centre of Zimbabwe passing just to the west of the capital, Harare. It consists of a band of short, narrow ridges and hills spanning for approximately . The ...

, a mineral-rich feature that runs through Zimbabwe *

Mount Desire Dyke Mount Desire Dyke is designated place of geological significance. It is located north-east of Hawker in South Australia, on the edge of the Flinders Ranges. The dyke (or dike) is a rock structure where mobile material, being a breccia of rock sal ...

, an igneous intrusion in South Australia

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