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3 definitions found 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, ``Phil Trans.'' No 142, p. 1065, and Baddam's ``Memoirs,'' vol. ii p. 131.] (Zo["o]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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Alewife \Ale"wife`\, n.; pl {Alewives}. A woman who keeps an alehouse. --Gay. From WordNet r 1.6 [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: {Alosa pseudoharengus}, {Pomolobus pseudoharengus}]
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