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n. See oldsquaw.

n. Any of various fishes such as the alewife and the menhaden.

adj. A duck; the old squaw.

n. The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus), the American alewife, etc.

n. A tropical Atlantic fish (Bessy cerca).

n. A common long-tailed sea duck (Clangula hyemalis) of the northern parts of the US; also called old squaw.

n. The long-tailed sea-duck, Harelda glacialis, of the family Anatidæ and the subfamily Fuligulinæ.

n. In ichthyology, one of several different fishes.

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n. A cowl for a chimney, to prevent its smoking.

n. a common long-tailed sea duck of the northern parts of the United States

n. tropical Atlantic fish

"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."

sea duck    triggerfish   

black oldwife   

oldwives   

queen triggerfish    oldwench