"Gaspereau" is a word in ENGLISH

A woman who keeps an alehouse.

A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name …

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Same as Alewife.

An American river herring (Clupea aestivalis), closely allied to the alewife.

The alewife.

A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the …

The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, …