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alewife

alewife is a 7-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A woman who keeps an alehouse. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 14 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 14 · 4 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A woman who keeps an alehouse.

  2. 2noun

    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.

  3. 3noun

    shad-like food fish that runs rivers to spawn; often salted or smoked; sometimes placed in genus Pomolobus

  4. 4noun

    flesh of shad-like fish abundant along the Atlantic coast or in coastal streams

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