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Dyke or dike may refer to:

General uses

Structures

  • A natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels, called levee in American English
  • Ditch, a water-filled drainage trench
  • A regional term for a dry stone wall

People

  • Dyke (surname)
  • Dyke baronets, a title in the Baronetage of England
  • Dykes (surname), a British surname found particularly in northern England

Places

Settlements

  • Dike, Iowa, United States
  • Dykes, Missouri, United States
  • Dyke, Moray, Scotland
  • Dike, Texas, United States
  • Dyke, Virginia, United States
  • Dyke, Lincolnshire, England
  • Little Dyke, Nova Scotia, Canada

Earthworks

  • Car Dyke, a Roman boundary ditch in Eastern England
  • Devil's Dyke (disambiguation), one of several ancient embankments or ditches (or both)
  • Foss Dyke, a Roman canal in England linking the River Trent to the River Witham at Lincoln
  • Offa's Dyke, historic earthwork dividing Mercia and Wales
  • Wansdyke (earthwork), dividing Wessex from the lands south west of it
  • Wat's Dyke, An earthwork running through the northern Welsh Marches from Basingwerk Abbey to Maesbury

Geological features

  • The Great Dyke, a mineral-rich feature that runs through Zimbabwe
  • Mount Desire Dyke, an igneous intrusion in South Australia

See also

  • Dyke & the Blazers, 1960s R&B group
  • Van Dyke (disambiguation)
  • "D-Yikes!", an episode of South Park
  • 99 Dike, an asteroid
  • Winter Dyke, another name for a clothes horse
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