yesterfang

English

Etymology

From yester- +‎ fang (“catch”).

Noun

yesterfang (uncountable)

1. (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

• “yesterfang”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.