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   Streamer (?), n.
   1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag.
   
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   Brave Rupert from afar appears,
   
   Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden.
   
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   3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.  Macaulay.
   
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   While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell.
   
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   3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.
   
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   4. (Journalism) a banner.
   
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