different between alewife vs skipjack
alewife
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?e?lw??f/
- (US) IPA(key): /?e?l?wa?f/
Etymology 1
ale +? wife.
Noun
alewife (plural alewives)
- (archaic) A woman who keeps an alehouse.
Synonyms
- brewess
Etymology 2
Unknown. Possibly from 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.
Possibly from allowes (“a type of shad”), from French alose (“shad”), from Old French [Term?], from Late Latin alausa, influenced by Etymology 1 due to large belly of the fish.
Noun
alewife (plural alewives)
- A migrating North American fish, Alosa pseudoharengus.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
- I saw in Cohasset, separated from the sea only by a narrow beach, a handsome but shallow lake of some four hundred acres […] , and, after the alewives had passed into it, it had stopped up its outlet, and now the alewives were dying by thousands, and the inhabitants were apprehending a pestilence as the water evaporated.
- 1865, Henry David Thoreau, Cape Cod, Chapter I. "The Shipwreck", page 14.
- Any of several species similar in appearance.
Synonyms
- (Alosa pseudoharengus): branch herring, ellwhop, ellwife, (Canada) gaspereau
Derived terms
- Alewife Brook
Translations
See also
- alewife on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Alosa pseudoharengus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Alosa pseudoharengus on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
alewife From the web:
skipjack
English
Noun
skipjack (plural skipjacks or skipjack)
- Any of several unrelated fish.
- Several of the genus Euthynnus resembling tuna.
- Katsuwonus pelamis.
- The common bluefish
- The alewife
- The bonito
- The butterfish
- The cutlass fish
- The jurel
- The leatherjacket, leatherjack (genus Oligoplites)
- The runner.
- The saurel.
- The saury.
- The threadfish.
- (obsolete) An upstart.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ford to this entry?)
- An elaterid; a click beetle.
- A shallow sailboat with a rectilinear or V-shaped cross section.
Translations
See also
- skipjack tuna
skipjack From the web:
- what's skipjack tuna
- what's skipjack tuna mean
- skipjack meaning
- what is skipjack tuna vs albacore
- what is skipjack wild tuna
- what is skipjack fish
- what is skipjack bait
- what does skipjack tuna taste like
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