As these are in the freshes, so the salts afford at certain times of the year many other kinds of fish in infinite shoals, such as the oldwife, a fish not much unlike a herring, and the sheepshead, a sort of fish which they esteem in the number of their best.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bounty of the Chesapeake Fishing in Colonial Virginia] Reference

A divorce trial for Kahler and his 44-year-oldwife, Karen, was scheduled to start Dec. 21, but a settlement hearing was planned for Friday.    From Wordnik.com. Reference