alewife

alewife has 4 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 7.

Definitions

• n.. A woman who keeps an alehouse.
• n.. A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species.
• n.. shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus
• n.. flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams