| streamer | 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. "While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot." (Lowell) 3. <chemical> A searcher for stream tin. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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