🐟 A type of fish 🧹 To clean a ship 🍽️ Fish meat

to bream

9.9

To clean a ship's hull with heat to remove barnacles and seaweed

verb

Archaic

: desalgar

It was common practice in earlier centuries to bream wooden ships before long voyages.

Examples

Before setting sail, the crew had to bream the old vessel to improve her speed.
Shipwrights would bream the hull regularly to prevent damage from encrusting organisms.
They need to bream the hull before the next voyage.
We will bream the ship this weekend.
Before the race, the team decided to bream the boat's hull to ensure it was free of barnacles.
To maintain the ship's performance, the crew must bream the bottom regularly.
He spent the afternoon preparing to bream the fishing vessel, making sure all encrustations were removed.

Compounds

black bream

Australian

1 5.7

A dark fish from Australian waters often caught to eat and for sport

sea bream

1 5.1

A sea fish with a deep, flat body often eaten

Atlantic sea bream

6.7

A sea fish with a round body that lives in warm Atlantic waters and people eat

European bream

8.4

A freshwater fish with a flat body and silver scales that is not often eaten

European sea bream

4.9

A fish people eat that lives near the coasts of Europe

freshwater bream

5.5

A freshwater fish with a flat body and shiny scales

freshwater bream

6.9

Meat from freshwater fish eaten as food

sea bream

3.4

Meat from certain sea fish that people eat

How Thorough

to bream

Archaic

9.9

to scrape

62 1.2

to scrub

55 1.0

to clean

∞ 1.0

to wipe

531 1.0

Surface Forms

bream infinitive

breamed past

breamed past participle

breaming present participle

breams third person singular

Etymology

Bream as a verb probably comes from old words meaning 'to burn' or 'to heat', because sailors used fire or hot tools to remove barnacles and seaweed from a ship's hull. So to bream a ship is to 'burn' or heat the bottom to clean it.