Dyke

Dyke or dike may refer to:

  • A natural or artificial slope or wall to regulate water levels, called levee in American English
  • A ditch, a water filled drainage trench
  • A regional term for a dry stone wall
  • Dike (geology), a subvertical sheet-like intrusion of magma or sediment
  • Dike (mythology), the Greek goddess of moral justice
  • Dikes, diagonal or side-cutting pliers, a hand tool used by electricians and others
  • Dyke (car), a brass era automobile
  • Dyke (slang), a vulgarism meaning "lesbian"
  • Dyking out, a slang term for a uniform or dressing assistant at Virginia Military Institute and other military schools or colleges
  • D-Yikes!, an episode of South Park
  • 99 Dike, an asteroid

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Famous quotes containing the word dyke:

    This is the gospel of labour, ring it, ye bells of the kirk!
    The Lord of Love came down from above, to live with the men who work.
    This is the rose that He planted, here in the thorn-curst soil:
    Heaven is blest with perfect rest, but the blessing of Earth is toil.
    —Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)

    Oh, it’s home again, and home again, America for me!
    I want a ship that’s westward bound to plow the rolling sea,
    To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars,
    Where the air is full of sunlight and the flag is full of stars.
    —Henry Van Dyke (1852–1933)