Noun

1. A European marine fish (Pagrus vulgaris) allied to the American scup; the becker. The name is sometimes applied to the related species.
2. a kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p. 216.

     The fuel was wood, either alone or mixed with peat, or pure peat - as in the north of Lancashire - or mineral coal, but most frequently it was small charcoal, called braise or braize.