alewife / ˈeɪlˌwaɪf /

📖毕业后词汇阿利维夫鲱鱼阿利夫阿利弗

alewife 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural ale·wives.

  1. a North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus, resembling a small shad.

更多alewife例句

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