n. 1. An ensign, flag, or pennant, which floats in the wind; specifically, a long, narrow, ribbonlike flag. [ 1913 Webster ] Brave Rupert from afar appears, Whose waving streamers the glad general knows. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis. Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ] While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Journalism) a banner. [ PJC ] |