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

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

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