bream
noun
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any of various usually edible freshwater percoid fishes having compressed bodies and shiny scalesfreshwater bream
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any of numerous marine percoid fishes especially (but not exclusively) of the family Sparidaesea bream
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flesh of any of various saltwater fishes of the family Sparidae or the family Bramidaesea bream
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flesh of various freshwater fishes of North America or of Europefreshwater bream
verb
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to clean a wooden ship's bottom with heat, by softening the pitch before scraping“We took the ship in to have it breamed.”