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Answer for the clue "Small fish ", 8 letters:
alewives

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n. (plural of alewife English)

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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.) ...

Usage examples of alewives.

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.