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alewife
plur. alewives. (Indian, aloof. Alosa vernalis, Storer, Massachusetts Rep't.) A fish of the herring ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
The Clupea alosa, a fish of the herring kind, which appears in the Philosophical Transactions for 1678, as the aloofe; the corruption therefore was a ready one.
plur. alewives. (Indian, aloof. Alosa vernalis, Storer, Massachusetts Rep't.) A fish of the herring ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.