yesterfang
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From yester- + fang (“catch”).
Noun[edit]
yesterfang (uncountable)
- (rare, obsolete) That which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.
- 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:
- 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.
References[edit]
- “yesterfang”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.