English
Etymology 1
Compound of ale and wife
Noun
en-noun|alewives
- A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Etymology 2
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.
Noun
wikipedia
en-noun|alewives
- A North American fish italbrac|Clupea vernalis of the herring family. The name is locally applied to other related species.
Synonyms
branch herring
ellwhop
ellwife
pl:alewife
te:alewife
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