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noun

Streamer n.

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."

A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. "While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot."

(Mining) A searcher for stream tin.

(Journalism) A banner.

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Etymology of 'Streamer'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Streamer" Quotes from Famous Books

... we saw the streamer at the same moment. It was a large white one, slung across the curling drive from one tree to another. On it were the words: "Welcome to the ...

— The Brother of Daphne • Dornford Yates

... Owner and jockey were face to face. "When thieves fall out!" they thought; and they waited for the fun. Something was due them. It came in a flash. Waterbury shot out his big fist, and little Garrison thumped on the turf with a bang, a thin streamer of blood threading its ...

— Garrison's Finish - A Romance of the Race-Course • W. B. M. Ferguson

... fight, His cannons' roar, forerunner of his fame, Makes their Hague tremble, and their Amsterdam; The British thunder does their houses rock, And the Duke seems at every door to knock. His dreadful streamer (like a comet's hair, Threatening destruction) hastens their despair; 270 Makes them deplore their scatter'd fleet as lost, And fear our present landing on their coast. The trembling Dutch th'approaching Prince behold, As sheep a lion leaping tow'rds ...

— Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham • Edmund Waller; John Denham

... the thing, and waving her hand above her head she joined in his shout of triumph, and let him drag her along to a corner of the Moon-street where a seller of garlands offered her wares for sale. There she let him wreathe her with ivy, she stuck a laurel wreath on his head, twisted a streamer of ivy round his neck and breast, and laughed loudly as she flung a large silver coin into the flower-woman's lap and clung tightly to his arm. It was all done in swift haste without reflection, as if in a fit of intoxication, ...

— Uarda • Georg Ebers

... pierced that day, and many a false corselet was broken, and many a white streamer dyed with blood, and many a horse left without a rider. The Misbelievers called on Mahomet, and the Christians on Santiago, and the noise of the tambours and of the trumpets was so great that none could hear his neighbour. And my Cid and his company succoured ...

— Journeys Through Bookland - Volume Four • Charles H. Sylvester

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