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brayer

/ˈbɹeɪɚ/

brayer 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.

Noun

brayer (plural brayers)

  1. 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.
  2. One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.
    • Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 2

brayer meaning in Tamil and Bengali

brayer in Tamil

கழுதைபோல் கத்துபவர், கனைப்பவர், அச்சுக்குரிய மை அரைக்கும் பொறி

brayer in Bengali

একটি ডাইপোল অ্যান্টেনা

Forms of brayer

pluralbrayers

Origin of brayer

From bray + -er.

Words that rhyme with brayer

7 more rhymesFewer rhymes

Questions about brayer

What does brayer mean?
Brayer means 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.
What is brayer in Tamil?
Brayer in Tamil is கழுதைபோல் கத்துபவர், கனைப்பவர், அச்சுக்குரிய மை அரைக்கும் பொறி. See Brayer meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is brayer?
Brayer is a noun.
How do you pronounce brayer?
Brayer is pronounced /ˈbɹeɪɚ/.
What is the plural of brayer?
The plural of brayer is brayers.

Words near brayer in the dictionary

  1. Braybrooke
  2. Braybrookes
  3. Brayden
  4. Braydon
  5. brayed
  6. brayer
  7. brayera
  8. brayers
  9. brayette
  10. brayettes
  11. Brayford

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Adapted from Wiktionary: brayer (page history and authors); brayer (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); brayer (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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