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Dyke

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Dyke (normal International spelling) or Dike (normal American spelling) can mean several things:

  • A dyke / dike is a long wall built to keep out the sea or enclose land.
  • Dyke / Dike is another word for a ditch
  • Dyke / Dike is a slang term for a lesbian.
  • 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.
  • A dyke / dike short for diagonal cutters. Often used in plural "Get me a pair of dikes".


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