oldwives

Updated: January 20, 2026

There are also trouts, porpoises, rays, oldwives, mullets, plaice, and very many other sorts of excellent good fish, which we have taken and eaten, whose names I know not but in the country language we have of twelve sorts more the pictures as they were drawn in the country with their names.

James Wharton - The Bounty of the Chesapeake: Fishing in Colonial Virginia