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bream

(n): flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europe
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5 months ago chained_bear said:

I've heard of the fish before today, but not the verb:

"'Harding thought of showing the rest of the boys ... what half-breaming is like. Do you see, they have heaved her down as far as they decently can and they are scraping the weed from what bottom they can reach...'"
--Patrick O'Brian, Blue at the Mizzen, 258

"To clear a ship's bottom of shells, seaweed, ooze, etc., by singeing it, thus softening the pitch so that the debris can be scraped off." (A Sea of Words, 119)

about 1 year ago fbharjo said:

bream a fish named for its shimmering

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