See Also: Alewife(medicine)
alewife(dictionary)
alewife(encyclopedia)

alewife (iou)



alewife noun. . LME.
[from ALE + WIFE noun (in sense 'woman').]
A woman who keeps an alehouse. arch. LME.
A fish of the herring family, Alosa pseudoharengus, found on the Atlantic coast of N. America. M17.