yesterfang

noun

yesterfang

noun

Etymology From yester- + fang (“catch”).

1

Obsolete, Rare That which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.

  • Although milians and infinite numbers of them [fish] be taken, yet on the next [day] their losse will be so supplied with new store that nothing shall be missing of the yesterfang.1577, Raphaell Holinshed, “The Historie of Scotlande, […]”, in The Firste Volume of the Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande […], volume I, London: […] [Henry Bynneman] for Iohn Hunne, →OCLC:

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