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Printer's hand inking roller
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brayer
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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A brayer is a hand-tool used historically in printing and printmaking to break up and "rub out" (spread) ink before it was "beaten" using inking balls or composition rollers . The word is derived from the verb to "bray", meaning "to break, pound, or grind ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (label en printing) A hand printing roller used in to spread a thin even layer of ink. 2 One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brayer \Bray"er\, n. One that brays like an ass. --Pope.
Usage examples of brayer.
God who made me, you can give a two-bray advantage to the greatest and most expert brayer in the world, because your sound is loud, your voice sustained, with the correct time and rhythm, your inflections numerous and rapid: in short, I admit defeat, and surrender the palm, and hand you the banner for this rare ability.
Not a brayer, like the ones you saw before, a woman who works hard at whatever comes to hand.
Toni Brayer of Cal Pacific Medical Center, and I told her that I needed to talk to someone before I went into shock myself.