Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various fishes such as the alewife and the menhaden.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cowl for a chimney, to prevent its smoking.
- noun The long-tailed sea-duck, Harelda glacialis, of the family Anatidæ and the subfamily Fuligulinæ.
- noun In ichthyology, one of several different fishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream (
Cantharus lineatus ), the American alewife, etc. - noun (Zoöl.) A tropical Atlantic fish (
Bessy cerca ). - noun (Zoöl.) A common long-tailed sea duck (
Clangula hyemalis ) of the northern parts of the US; also calledold squaw .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States
- noun tropical Atlantic fish
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Examples
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As these are in the freshes, so the salts afford at certain times of the year many other kinds of fish in infinite shoals, such as the oldwife, a fish not much unlike a herring, and the sheepshead, a sort of fish which they esteem in the number of their best.
The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia James Wharton
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A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-oldwife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday.
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A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-oldwife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday.
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A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-oldwife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday.
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A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-oldwife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday.
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A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-oldwife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday.
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hernesheir commented on the word oldwife
It's a fish.
January 2, 2012