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