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Definition bream
Etymology 1
From Middle English breme, from Old French breme, bresme, braisme, brasme (compare modern French brème), from Frankish *brahsma, *brahsima (compare Dutch brasem), from West Germanic *brahsm? (compare Old High German brahsma, brahsmo, brahsina, brehsina > modern German Brasse, Brachse (“bream”)), from Proto-Germanic *brahsm?, *brahsin?, *brahsmaz (“bream”), perhaps from Proto-Germanic *brehwanaz (“shining, glittery, sparkly”), from Proto-Indo-European *b?erek- (“to shine”) (see braid (verb)).
Noun
bream (plural bream or breams)
- A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
- (Britain) A species in that genus, Abramis brama.
- An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Lepomis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes.
- A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See sea bream.
Etymology 2
Compare broom, and German brennen (as in ein Schiff brennen).
Verb
bream (third-person singular simple present breams, present participle breaming, simple past and past participle breamed)
- (nautical) To clean (e.g. a ship's bottom of clinging shells, seaweed, etc.) by the application of fire and scraping.
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