Word.ws English Dictionary

yesterfang

yesterfang noun: that which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.

Noun

yesterfang (uncountable)

  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

Origin of yesterfang

From yester- + fang (“catch”).

Questions about yesterfang

What does yesterfang mean?
Yesterfang means that which was captured or caught on the previous day or former occasion; a previous day's catch.
What part of speech is yesterfang?
Yesterfang is a noun.

Words near yesterfang in the dictionary

  1. yestereens
  2. yestereve
  3. yestereven
  4. yesterevening
  5. yestereves
  6. yesterfang
  7. yestergay
  8. yestergays
  9. yesterly
  10. yestermillennium
  11. yesterminute

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: yesterfang (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “yesterfang.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/yesterfang. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.