vbl. sb. [f. BREAM v.1 + -ING1.] The clearing of a ship’s bottom by burning. Hence breaming-fuel, -hook.

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1627.  Capt. Smith, Seaman’s Gram., ii. 13. Breaming her, is but washing or burning of all the filth with reeds or broome.

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1628.  Digby, Voy. Medit. (1868), 61. The inconueniencie of breeming aloft to pay the shippe ouer with pitch.

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1759.  Colebrooke, in Phil. Trans., LI. 57. Corruptly called breaming, for brenning or burning.

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1769.  Falconer, Dict. Marine (1789), Chauffage, breaming-fuel. Fourches de Carene, breaming-hooks.

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