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Brayer vs Inkball - What's the difference?

brayer | inkball |

As nouns the difference between brayer and inkball

is that brayer is a hand printing roller used in to spread a thin even layer of ink while inkball is the gall of an oak tree, used to produce ink.

brayer

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (label) A hand printing roller used in to spread a thin even layer of ink.
  • One who brays, or makes the sound of a donkey.
    • (Alexander Pope)
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    inkball

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • * 1977 , Maurice Annenberg, A Typographic journey through the Inland printer, 1883-1900
  • * 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.