brimming vbl n Cp OED breaming (1628-1769). See the inventory of Nfld fishing equipment in Whitbourne's Discourse (1622) in 1982 CELL (ed), p. 174: 'Fiue hundred waight of Pitch, A barrell of Tarre, Two hundred waight of blacke Ocome, Thrummes for Pitch mabs.' The action of spreading pitch on the bottom of a small vessel.
   1983 Evening Telegram 9 May, p. 6 We then had a 'brimming' tool, which was a stick, six feet long, with a rubber boot projecting at one end at right angles. The end of the rubber boot was lighted and gently stroked over the tarred bottom. As the tar melted and lighted, the tool soon became a flaming torch and it was stroked from aft to bow until the whole thing looked 'glazed'... I [realized] I had witnessed a 'brimming.'

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