alewife noun.
['eɪlwʌɪf] Pl. -wives
[-wʌɪvz].
LME.[from ALE + WIFE noun (in sense 'woman').]1. A woman who keeps an alehouse.
arch. LME.2. A fish of the herring family,
Alosa pseudoharengus, found on the Atlantic coast of N. America.
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