brayer

American  

[brey-er] / ˈbreɪ ər /

noun

Printing.

1. a small roller for inking type by hand, usually for making a proof.

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Etymology

Origin of brayer

First recorded in 1680–90; bray ² + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Ms. Turner is a skilled bellower, as she was a skilled brayer in the 2005 Broadway revival of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2012

Then Elijah clean his knife down in the earth, and when he'd finished laughin' he put ub a brayer.

From Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 by Pickthall, Marmaduke William

He was fumbling and kept talking quickly, quickly in French, you know: Il faut le battre, le fer, le brayer, le pétrir….

From Anna Karenina by Garnett, Constance

I go now to say mein brayer und get mein schleep.

From Diamond Dyke The Lone Farm on the Veldt - Story of South African Adventure by Boucher, W.

Meanwhile yon brayer at full blast Belies my cause, ’Midst foolish jeers and foolisher applause; And preachers prose, and statesmen tinker on, And we—we starve in gold-choked Babylon!

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, October 29, 1887 by Various