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brailler

brailler

7.2
A machine that makes braille text for people who cannot see
  • noun
  • /ˈbreɪlər/
  • Specialized
translation icon : máquina de escribir en braille
  • This article describes the Early Braille Readers Project, which provided a Mountbatten Pro Brailler and peripheral equipment to 20 kindergarteners, first graders, and second graders in Texas.
  • Perkins Brailler
  • Mountbatten Brailler
  • electronic Brailler

That said, Braille can be created using an old school brailler like this one right here.

Examples

  • The most popular tool for writing braille was a Perkins Braillewriter (n = 77); some students used an electronic brailler (n = 28) or a slate and stylus (n = 11), and 14 students used other tools.

    Academic text (2006)

  • That said, Braille can be created using an old school brailler like this one right here.

    Molly Burke

  • Most students had experience with a Perkins Brailler.

    Academic text (2007)

  • An electronic Brailler may be great, but the person prefers to use the slate and stylus.

    Academic text (2001)

  • "Most students still used the Perkins Brailler, partly to maintain a skill they had already acquired and partly as a backup device in the event of a technological breakdown."

    Academic text (2007)

  • Blind since birth, by profession a social worker and teacher of Braille, Miss Mennella coached me in computer use and the Perkins Brailler.

    Fiction book (1997)

  • A teacher from the Hadley School for the Blind in Winnetka, Illinois, loaned me an old brailler and a used braille-instruction textbook that became my bible.

    Academic text (2009)

  • The teacher provided a brailler so that the students could write their assignments in braille.

  • Using a brailler, she created notes for her visually impaired friend during the lecture.

  • He learned to operate a brailler to help transcribe books for the blind at the community center.

Synonyms

Braillewriter
vsbrailler
  • Specialized
5.5

A machine that makes raised dots on paper for blind readers

is an alternate name written with two separate words rather than as one

Surface Forms

brailler singular
braillers plural

Morphology

brailler = braille (transparent) = braille + er

This is a regular and easily interpretable suffixation: braille + -er yields an instrument noun meaning something used for braille writing.

Etymology

Brailler comes from the name Braille and the ending -er, which means 'one who' or 'a tool that does something'. Since Braille is a system of raised dots read by touch, a brailler is a machine that writes those dots.