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Entry 4 senses · 2 variants Webster, 1913

Bream

/brēm/ · IPA /bɹɪm/
01 n. A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
  1. 1.
    A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.(Zool.)
  2. 2.
    An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.(Zool.) Also: sunfishes See: Pondfish
  3. 3.
    A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.(Zool.) See: Sea Bream
02 v. t. To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.
imp. & p. p. Breamed; p. pr. & vb. n. Breaming
  1. 1.
    To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.(Naut.)