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bream 2 [breem] WORD ORIGIN verb (used with object) Nautical. to clean (a ship’s bottom) by applying burning furze, reeds, etc., to soften the pitch and loosen adherent matter. Liberaldictionary.com
Origin of bream 2 1620–30; Middle Dutch brem(e) furze Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 British Dictionary definitions for breamed bream 1 Australian brim (brɪm) noun plural bream or brim any of several Eurasian freshwater cyprinid fishes of the genus Abramis, esp A. brama, having a deep compressed body covered with silvery scales white bream or silver bream a similar cyprinid, Blicca bjoerkna short for sea bream Australian any of various marine fishes Word Origin for bream C14: from Old French bresme, of Germanic origin; compare Old High German brahsema; perhaps related to brehan to glitter bream 2 verb nautical (formerly) to clean debris from (the bottom of a vessel) by heating to soften the pitch Word Origin for bream C15: probably from Middle Dutch bremme broom; from using burning broom as a source of heat Bream noun Julian (Alexander). born 1933, English guitarist and lutenist Collins English Dictionary – Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Word Origin and History for breamed bream n.
freshwater fish, late 14c., from Old French braisme “bream,” from Frankish *brahsima, from West Germanic *brahsm- (cf. Old High German brahsima), perhaps from Proto-Germanic base *brehwan “to shine, glitter, sparkle,” from PIE *bherek- (see braid (v.)).
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