Usually means: Roller tool for applying ink.
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General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. brayer: Merriam-Webster
  2. brayer, brayer: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. brayer: Collins English Dictionary
  4. Brayer, brayer: Wordnik
  5. brayer: Wiktionary
  6. brayer: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. brayer: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Brayer, brayer: Dictionary.com
  9. Brayer: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Brayer: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. brayer: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Brayer: Rhymezone
  13. Brayer: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. brayer: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. brayer: FreeDictionary.org
  16. brayer: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  17. brayer: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. brayer: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. English-Chinese Dictionary of Graphic Communications (Big 5) (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. brayer: Encyclopedia

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Book Binding (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (brayer)

noun:  (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.
noun:  One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.

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