Dictionary
Find
in
Dictionary
Thesaurus
Translations

Click to move up the list of words
breath
breath test
breathable
Breathalyzer
breathe
breathed
breather
breathing
breathing room
breathless
breathtaking
breathy
breccia
Brecon Beacons National Park
bred
bred-in-the-bone
Breda
Click to move down the list of words
Also available:

World English Dictionary
Dictionnaire Français

bream (2)

bream [ breem ] (past and past participle breamed, present participle bream·ing, 3rd person present singular breams)


transitive verb 
Definition:
 
clean debris from boat hull: to scrape the shells, seaweed, and mud off the bottom of a boat ( archaic )

[Early 17th century. Probably < Middle Dutch bremme "broom, furze"]
Advertisement

© 2009 Microsoft