Alewives is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.
You can make 248 anagrams from letters in alewives (aeeilsvw).
1625-35, Americanism; earlier allowes, perhaps influenced by alewife2, probably French alose shad Gallo-Latin alausa
Calote had caught the withered bough when it fell, and made off with it under the alewife's very nose.
There be espiers set in every lane and the highway, said the alewife.
Joan (passim), a generic name for an alewife, strumpet, and the like: see Doctour Double Ale and next entry.
They went into the tavern and the alewife set her best brew before them, and presently slipped out to seek her gossips.
Bunch (Mother), an alewife, mentioned by Dekker in his drama called Satiromastix .
The Menhaden make their appearance in the spring with the arrival of the shad, alewife, blue-fish, and weak-fish.
alewife in old English was applied to the women, usually very stout dames, who kept alehouses.
Among those with a familiar appearance were the sturgeon, perch, and pike, and a small fish resembling our alewife.