brayerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹeɪɚ/
• 韻: -eɪə(ɹ)

名詞

brayer (複数形 brayers)

1. (printing) 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.
   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “Book the First”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC, page 2:

     Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend

アナグラム

• Yarber, ebrary