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Herring's relative
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alewife
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Wiktionary
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Etymology 1 n. (context archaic English) A woman who keeps an alehouse. Etymology 2 n. 1 A North American fish, (taxlink Clupea vernalis species noshow=1), of the herring family. 2 A migrating North American fish, (taxlink Alosa pseudoharengus species noshow=1). ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Alewife \Ale"wife`\, 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 Baddam's ``Memoirs,'' vol. ii. p. 131.] (Zo["o]l.) ...
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Alewife was a cache coherent multiprocessor developed in the early 1990s by a group led by Anant Agarwal at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology . It was based on a network of up to 512 processing nodes, each of which used the Sparcle computer architecture, ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
herring-like fish of North America, 1630s, named from the word for female tavern keepers (late 14c.), from ale + wife ; the fish so called in reference to its large abdomen.
Usage examples of alewife.
The butler and cupbearers served fine Burgundy as the alewife and her seductive daughter, Edith, sauntered about, proffering their ale and mead.
Faggots of wood and bags of fodder were carted up to the castle along with the casks of alewife and Pilsener unloaded from the barges floating along the river.
But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shad, alewives and herring, against Linnaeus's express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.
While overcooked and oversalted lake alewife fillets in a sealed pot of brine was not my idea of a good time, there were folks inland for whom that was a great if expensive treat, and a very good supplement to a diet that consisted largely of bread and onion, with too little protein.
But of my own knowledge, I know that down to the year 1850, sharks and shads, alewives and herring, against Linnæus's express edict, were still found dividing the possession of the same seas with the Leviathan.