Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Bream \Bream\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Breamed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Breaming}.] [Cf. {Broom}, and G. ein schiff brennen.]
   (Naut.)
   To clean, as a ship's bottom of adherent shells, seaweed,
   etc., by the application of fire and scraping.