Stream"er (?), n.

1.

An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.

Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.

3.

A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.

Macaulay.

While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell.

3. Mining

A searcher for stream tin.

 

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