Result from Foreign Dictionaries (3 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. {Alewives}.
A woman who keeps an alehouse. --Gay.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. {Alewives}. [This word is properly
aloof, the Indian name of a fish. See Winthrop on the culture
of maize in America, "Phil Trans." No. 142, p. 1065, and
Baddam's "Memoirs," vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zool.)
A North American fish ({Clupea vernalis}) of the Herring
family. It is called also {ellwife}, {ellwhop}, {branch
herring}. The name is locally applied to other related
species.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alewife
n 1: flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast
or in coastal streams
2: shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted
or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus [syn:
{alewife}, {Alosa pseudoharengus}, {Pomolobus
pseudoharengus}]
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