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Old wife

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A prating old woman; a gossip.
(Zool.) The local name of various fishes, as the European black sea bream (Cantharus lineatus), the American alewife, etc.
(Zool.) A duck; the old squaw.

See also: Old Old Old



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It seemed incredible that a man could outlast half a century shut up in a dark hole like a rat, but here were his old wife and some old comrades to testify to it.
Thus passed many years, and he was now an old man, and sat with his old wife under the blooming tree.
So Tarzan accepted the invitation of old M'ganwazam, insisting, however, that he much preferred sharing a hut with some of the younger men rather than driving the chief's old wife out in the cold.
 
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