brayer

English

Etymology

bray +‎ -er

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -eɪə(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.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Alexander Pope to this entry?)

Anagrams

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 both groups, according to the writer's preference).

  Conjugation of brayer (see also Appendix:French verbs)
simple compound
infinitive brayer avoir brayé
gerund en brayant en ayant brayé
present participle brayant
/bʁɛ.jɑ̃/ or /bʁe.jɑ̃/
past participle brayé
/bʁɛ.je/ or /bʁe.je/
person singular plural
first second third first second third
indicative je (j’) tu il nous vous ils
simple
tenses		 present braye or braie
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 brayes or braies
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 braye or braie
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 brayons
/bʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /bʁe.jɔ̃/		 brayez
/bʁɛ.je/ or /bʁe.je/		 brayent or braient
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/
imperfect brayais
/bʁɛ.jɛ/ or /bʁe.jɛ/		 brayais
/bʁɛ.jɛ/ or /bʁe.jɛ/		 brayait
/bʁɛ.jɛ/ or /bʁe.jɛ/		 brayions
/bʁɛj.jɔ̃/ or /bʁej.jɔ̃/		 brayiez
/bʁɛj.je/ or /bʁej.je/		 brayaient
/bʁɛ.jɛ/ or /bʁe.jɛ/
past historic1 brayai
/bʁɛ.je/ or /bʁe.je/		 brayas
/bʁɛ.ja/ or /bʁe.ja/		 braya
/bʁɛ.ja/ or /bʁe.ja/		 brayâmes
/bʁɛ.jam/ or /bʁe.jam/		 brayâtes
/bʁɛ.jat/ or /bʁe.jat/		 brayèrent
/bʁɛ.jɛʁ/ or /bʁe.jɛʁ/
future brayerai or braierai
/bʁɛj.ʁe/ or /bʁɛ.ʁe/		 brayeras or braieras
/bʁɛj.ʁa/ or /bʁɛ.ʁa/		 brayera or braiera
/bʁɛj.ʁa/ or /bʁɛ.ʁa/		 brayerons or braierons
/bʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /bʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/		 brayerez or braierez
/bʁɛj.ʁe/ or /bʁɛ.ʁe/		 brayeront or braieront
/bʁɛj.ʁɔ̃/ or /bʁɛ.ʁɔ̃/
conditional brayerais or braierais
/bʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/		 brayerais or braierais
/bʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/		 brayerait or braierait
/bʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/		 brayerions or braierions
/bʁɛ.jə.ʁjɔ̃/ or /bʁɛ.ʁjɔ̃/		 brayeriez or braieriez
/bʁɛ.jə.ʁje/ or /bʁɛ.ʁje/		 brayeraient or braieraient
/bʁɛj.ʁɛ/ or /bʁɛ.ʁɛ/
compound
tenses		 present perfect Use the present tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect Use the imperfect tense of avoir followed by the past participle
past anterior1 Use the past historic tense of avoir followed by the past participle
future perfect Use the future tense of avoir followed by the past participle
conditional perfect Use the conditional tense of avoir followed by the past participle
subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il que nous que vous qu’ils
simple
tenses		 present braye or braie
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 brayes or braies
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 braye or braie
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 brayions
/bʁɛj.jɔ̃/ or /bʁej.jɔ̃/		 brayiez
/bʁɛj.je/ or /bʁej.je/		 brayent or braient
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/
imperfect1 brayasse
/bʁɛ.jas/ or /bʁe.jas/		 brayasses
/bʁɛ.jas/ or /bʁe.jas/		 brayât
/bʁɛ.ja/ or /bʁe.ja/		 brayassions
/bʁɛ.ja.sjɔ̃/ or /bʁe.ja.sjɔ̃/		 brayassiez
/bʁɛ.ja.sje/ or /bʁe.ja.sje/		 brayassent
/bʁɛ.jas/ or /bʁe.jas/
compound
tenses		 past Use the present subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
pluperfect1 Use the imperfect subjunctive tense of avoir followed by the past participle
imperative – tu – nous vous –
— braye or braie
/bʁɛj/ or /bʁɛ/		 — brayons
/bʁɛ.jɔ̃/ or /bʁe.jɔ̃/		 brayez
/bʁɛ.je/ or /bʁe.je/		 —
1literary tenses

Noun

brayer m (plural brayers)

  1. (surgery) truss
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