(n): flesh of fish from fresh water used as food
(n): flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidae
(n): flesh of fish from the sea used as food
(n): any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidae
(n): any of numerous spiny-finned fishes of the order Perciformes
(n): any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scales; especially (but not exclusively) of the genus Lepomis
(n): small carnivorous freshwater percoid fishes of North America usually having a laterally compressed body and metallic luster: crappies; black bass; bluegills; pumpkinseed
(v): clean (a ship's bottom) with heat
(v): make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from
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)
bream a fish named for its shimmering