alewife means A woman who keeps an alehouse.
alewife is pronounced /ˈeɪlwʌɪf/.
Etymology
From ale + wife.
noun
- A woman who keeps an alehouse.
- A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.“In his System of Nature, A. D. 1776, Linnæus declares, “I hereby separate the whales from the fish.” But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnæus’s express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.”
- Any of several species similar in appearance.