verb
- cleaned (a ship’s bottom) by burning off seaweed, barnacles, and other marine growth
Usage: nautical; past tense of bream
Examples
- The crew breamed the ship’s hull before setting sail.
- They breamed the vessel using fire and scraping tools.
- The old sailing ship was breamed in the harbor.
- After months at sea, the boat needed to be breamed.
- The sailors breamed the bottom to remove barnacles.