Meaning of old wife | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An old woman, later especially one who tells old wives' tales.
2. Any of various marine fishes :
3. the alewife (Alosa pseudoharengus)
4. A species of perciform fish endemic to the temperate coastal waters of Australia (Enoplosus armatus)
5. Balistes vetula (Queen triggerfish)
6. Certain spot-tail porgies (Diplodus ascensionis, Diplodus helenae)
7. Spondyliosoma cantharus (black seabream)
8. Trachinotus goodei (great pompano)
9. A wrasse
10. The long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis.
    Canada, US, archaic
11. A chimney cap to prevent smoking.
    Scotland

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Examples

“Once John, being overtaken in drink⟳ on the roadside by the cottage, and dreaming that he was burning in hell, awoke and saw⟳ the old wife hobbling toward him. Thereupon he fled soberly to the hills, and from that day became a quiet-living, humble-minded Christian.”

“The Oldvvives, be a foule that never leave⟳ tatling day or night, ſomething bigger than a Ducke.”

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