alewife : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: alewife	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for alewife
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
alewife n flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus Synonym(s): alewife, Alosa pseudoharengus, Pomolobus pseudoharengus
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl. {Alewives}. A woman who keeps an alehouse. --Gay.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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, [bd]Phil Trans.[b8] No. 142, p. 1065, and Baddam's [bd]Memoirs,[b8] vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo[94]l.) 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.