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Alewife :: Alewife (n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.

Wife :: Wife (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like..

Sawbelly :: Sawbelly (n.) The alewife.

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..

Aloof :: Aloof (n.) Same as Alewife.

Gaspereau :: Gaspereau (n.) The alewife.

Blueback :: Blueback (n.) An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife..

Alewife :: Alewife (n.) 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..

Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

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