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Alewife
(gcide) | Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. Alewives.
A woman who keeps an alehouse. --Gay.
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Alewife
(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.
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alewife
(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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Alewife
(gcide) | Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. Alewives.
A woman who keeps an alehouse. --Gay.
[1913 Webster]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.
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