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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Streamer" Quotes from Famous Books

... which was now almost ready for the sod. The great wall was all but finished—the corner by the orangery to be built up even with the rest. As she came out from the shelter of the house the blast of wind caught her thin dress and swept it out before her like a streamer. She had to hold her hair to prevent the wind from unwinding it. She could see nothing—the impalpable blackness reached far down into the depths of the canon, far out into the space above the land and the sea. Usually even on dark nights the hill behind the house brooded over the place like ...

— Clark's Field • Robert Herrick

... spoke, the French officer, with whom Clarence Hervey had laid the wager, appeared at the turn of the lane—his turkeys half flying—half hobbling up the road before him. The Frenchman waved a red streamer over the heads of his flock—Clarence shook a pole, from the top of which hung a bladder full of beans. The pigs grunted, the turkeys gobbled, arid the mob shouted: eager for the fame of Old England, the ...

— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth

... drops the streamer, In the nape the sharp steel hisses, Glances, grazes,—Christ! Redeemer! By a hair ...

— Poems • Adam Lindsay Gordon

... the shipping, Wagner's eyes were suddenly attracted by a large galley, with three masts—looking most rakish with its snow-white sail, its tapering spars, its large red streamer, and its low, long, and gracefully sweeping hull, which was painted jet black. On its deck were six pieces of brass ordnance; and stands of fire-arms were ranged round the lower parts of ...

— Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf • George W. M. Reynolds

... Pettibone's shop, painted by Pettibone's own practical hand; or the gaily bedighted Bon-Ton Grocery with the wonderful arrangement of tomato-cans into the words, "Welcome to Wakefield." The Building and Loan Association had stretched a streamer across the street, too, and the President never noticed it. His eyes and tongue were caught away by the ornate ...

— In a Little Town • Rupert Hughes

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