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Pile :: Pile (n.) One of the ordinaries or subordinaries having the form of a wedge, usually placed palewise, with the broadest end uppermost..

Alew :: Alew (n.) Halloo.

Salework :: Salework (n.) Work or things made for sale; hence, work done carelessly or slightingly..

Talewise :: Talewise (adv.) In a way of a tale or story.

Sawbelly :: Sawbelly (n.) The alewife.

Palewise :: Palewise (adv.) In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions; as, to divide an escutcheon palewise..

Alewife :: Alewife (n.) A North American fish (Clupea vernalis) of the Herring family. It is called also ellwife, ellwhop, branch herring. The name is locally applied to other related species..

Alewives :: Alewives (pl. ) of Alewif.

Counterchanged :: Counterchanged (a.) Having the tinctures exchanged mutually; thus, if the field is divided palewise, or and azure, and cross is borne counterchanged, that part of the cross which comes on the azure side will be or, and that on the or side will be azure..

Wife :: Wife (n.) A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like..

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

Alewives :: Alewives (pl. ) of Alewif.

Impale :: Impale (v. t.) To join, as two coats of arms on one shield, palewise; hence, to join in honorable mention..

Alewife :: Alewife (n.) A woman who keeps an alehouse.

Impalement :: Impalement (n.) The division of a shield palewise, or by a vertical line, esp. for the purpose of putting side by side the arms of husband and wife. See Impale, 3..

Aloof :: Aloof (n.) Same as Alewife.

Wall-eye :: Wall-eye (n.) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.

Gaspereau :: Gaspereau (n.) The alewife.

Skipjack :: Skipjack (n.) A name given to several kinds of a fish, as the common bluefish, the alewife, the bonito, the butterfish, the cutlass fish, the jurel, the leather jacket, the runner, the saurel, the saury, the threadfish, etc..

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