Crossword clues for brayer
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Brayer \Bray"er\, n. An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
Brayer \Bray"er\, n.
One that brays like an ass.
--Pope.
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.
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 small, as in a mortar". A brayer consists of a short wooden cylinder with a handle fitted to one end; the other, flat end is used to rub the ink. In the late nineteenth century the term was mis-applied in the United States to a small hand-roller, "used for spreading ink on the inking table, and for applying it to the distributing plates or rollers connected with presses". Such small rollers were sold as "brayers" from at least 1912 and later in the century the term was applied in the U.S.A. to hand-rollers of all sorts and sizes. It retains its original meaning in Europe.
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.