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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

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.

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.

(Mining)

A searcher for stream tin.

Noun.

An ensign or flag; a pennon extended or flowing in the wind; a poetic use of the word.

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