different between brayer vs inkball

English

Etymology

bray +? -er

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e??(r)

Noun

brayer (plural 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.

   • Sound forth my Brayers, and the welkin rend

Anagrams

• Yarber, ebrary

French

Etymology

From Old French, from Old Norse bræða (“melt; make oil, tar, pitch”).

Verb

brayer

1. To coat with pitch

Conjugation

This is a regular -er verb as far as pronunciation is concerned, but as with other verbs in -ayer (such as payer and essayer, the <y> of its stem may optionally be written as <i> when it precedes a silent <e> (compare verbs in -eyer, which never have this spelling change, and verbs in -oyer and -uyer, which always have it; verbs in -ayer belong to either group, according to the writer's preference).

Noun

brayer m (plural brayers)

1. (surgery) truss

English

Etymology

ink +? ball

Noun

inkball (plural inkballs)

1. The gall of an oak tree, used to produce ink.
   • 1946, William A. Murrill, Familiar trees

     The first tree I knew was an oak under which I played as a small child and gathered large inkballs that I used as marbles.

   • 1975, Jesse Stuart, My world (page 8)

     I said that ink made from pokeberries was better than that made from inkballs. I said that inkballs on oak trees were scarce. All the other students laughed. They bought commercial ink at the stores.

2. A leather-covered dauber, stuffed with soft, resilient wadding, with a wooden handle, used to ink type forms for printing. A predecessor of brayers and self-inking presses.
   • 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret

     He turns to the inkstone and picks up by the handles the two inkballs, rolling the leather facings together to freshen the ink. […] As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.