Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, a small composition-roller used for triturating and spreading the ink on a table or slab and daubling it on a platen or disk.
- noun One who or that which brays like an ass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An implement for braying and spreading ink in hand printing.
- noun One that brays like an ass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A hand
printing roller used in tospread athin even layer ofink . - noun One who
brays , or makes the sound of adonkey .
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Examples
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A beechen implement, resembling somewhat our potato masher, and called the "brayer," was used to manipulate the ink as it lay on the table; an iron shovel, known as the "slicer," being used to portion out from the mass of ink such quantities as were needed from time to time for the brayer.
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Or the paper she tested the ink brayer on while making the monotype?
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At a minimum look for a water-based fabric ink pad or ink that you can apply to the stamp with a brayer.
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May 22, 2006, 6: 32 pm mortgage brokers san diego says: mortgage brokers sandiego heightened helpless: Durango pooling brayer?
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My son played with my brayer all day... and then HAD to have it for Nap time.
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My son played with my brayer all day... and then HAD to have it for Nap time.
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It's kind of funny because Arthur is sitting straight up, but with her eyes closed. she's really cute. xo Twyla. oh yeah - holly gave me a really awesome present for my birthday - a brayer.
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French, you know: Il faut le battre, le fer, le brayer, le petrir ....
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Panurge the calf, Panurge the whiner, Panurge the brayer, would it not become thee much better to lend us here a helping hand than to lie lowing like a cow, as thou dost, sitting on thy stones like a bald-breeched baboon?
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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God that made me, you might give a couple of brays odds to the best and most finished brayer in the world; the tone you have got is deep, your voice is well kept up as to time and pitch, and your finishing notes come thick and fast; in fact, I own myself beaten, and yield the palm to you, and give in to you in this rare accomplishment. '
reesetee commented on the word brayer
Not a donkey, but a small hand roller, typically used in printmaking to spread ink.
September 24, 2007
bilby commented on the word brayer
"Place the wet paper on the cabinet. Use a soft, wet brayer to squeegee out the bubbles. Using wet fingers to smooth out the paper also works."
- Warhol Kitchen.
September 7, 2009