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brayer

/ˈbɹeɪɚ/

noun

A hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin even layer of ink. Early brayers, consisting of a vertical cylinder with a single handle, were designed to break up thick inks before spreading.

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Meanings

nounbrayer (plural brayers)

plural brayers

mediaA hand printing tool, in the US often a roller, used to spread a thin even layer of ink. Early brayers, consisting of a vertical cylinder with a single handle, were designed to break up thick inks before spreading.
One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.
Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend
1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 2

Origin

From bray + -er.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with brayer

player layer prayer mayor slayer surveyor bayer payer sprayer Ayer purveyor betrayer weigher grayer preyer Freyr adlayer diaper sprayer gainsayer obeyer waylayer

Anagrams

ebrary Yarber Arbery

Cite this entry

APA

brayer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brayer

MLA

“brayer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brayer. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “brayer,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/brayer.

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