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Bream   /brim/   Listen
noun
Bream  n.  
1.
(Zool.) A European fresh-water cyprinoid fish of the genus Abramis, little valued as food. Several species are known.
2.
(Zool.) An American fresh-water fish, of various species of Pomotis and allied genera, which are also called sunfishes and pondfishes. See Pondfish.
3.
(Zool.) A marine sparoid fish of the genus Pagellus, and allied genera. See Sea Bream.



verb
Bream  v. t.  (past & past part. breamed; pres. part. breaming)  (Naut.) To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed, etc., by the application of fire and scraping.






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"Bream" Quotes from Famous Books



... on the streets, where men are ready to cook for him over their braseros of charcoal and venders are near at hand to offer preserved fruits, the famous almond rock, almond soup, truffled turkey, or the most desirable of the season's delicacies,—sea-bream, which is brought from Cadiz especially for Christmas use, and which is eaten at Christmas in accordance with the old-time custom. Nuts of all kinds are abundant. By the side of the streets, venders of chestnuts—the finest in the world—lean against their clumsy ...
— Yule-Tide in Many Lands • Mary P. Pringle and Clara A. Urann

... before we came out of Port Sandwich, two reddish fish, about the size of large bream, and not unlike them, were caught with hook and line. On these fish most of the officers, and some of the petty officers, dined the next day. The night following, every one who had eaten of them was seized with violent pains in the ...
— A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World Volume 2 • James Cook

... the trawl or the lobster-traps would yield something unusual. Now it might be a dozen bream, called by the fishermen "brim," "redfish," or "all-eyes"; again up would come a catfish, savage and sharp-toothed, able to dent an ash oar; and rarely a small halibut would appear, drowned on the trawl. ...
— Jim Spurling, Fisherman - or Making Good • Albert Walter Tolman

... and the sleeping gulls, which woke in fright, and volubly accused one another of nightmares and riotous behaviour—and Bernel hauled in his boat, and handed Gard the tin dipper and three good-sized bream. ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham

... Mitchell is our Therapon ellipticus, Richards (T. richardsonii, Castln.). Found in all the rivers of the Murray system, and called Kooberry by the natives." It is also called the Silver Perch and sometimes Bream. ...
— A Dictionary of Austral English • Edward Morris


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