Hypertext Webster Gateway: "streamer"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Streamer \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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
streamer
n 1: light that streams; "streamers of flames"
2: a newspaper headline that runs across the full page [syn: {banner}]
3: a long flag; often tapering [syn: {pennant}, {pennon}, {waft}]
4: long strip of cloth for decoration or advertising [syn: {banner}]
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