alewife 的定义
plural ale·wives.
- a North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus, resembling a small shad.
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- Bunch (Mother), an alewife, mentioned by Dekker in his drama called Satiromastix .
- Among those with a familiar appearance were the sturgeon, perch, and pike, and a small fish resembling our alewife.
- The Menhaden make their appearance in the spring with the arrival of the shad, alewife, blue-fish, and weak-fish.
- The tinker in like vein confesses that he has run up a score with Marian Hacket, the fat alewife of Wincot.
- Alewife in old English was applied to the women, usually very stout dames, who kept alehouses.