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bream

noun pl. bream or breams

  1. a European freshwater cyprinoid fish (Abramis brama)
  2. any of various porgy fishes (family Sparidae)
  3. ☆ any of a number of freshwater sunfishes, as the bluegill

transitive verb

Historical to clean (a ship's bottom) by applying heat and then scraping

See bream in American Heritage Dictionary 4

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