Alewife

n.; pl. ALEWIVES. A woman who keeps an ale-house. (Gay.)

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 Badlam’s Memoirs, vol. ii. 131.] (Ichth.) An American fish, resembling the herring; Clupea serrata.