Stream"er (?), n. 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.

3. 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.

3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.

Stream"er (?), n. 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.

3. 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.

3. (Mining) A searcher for stream tin.

• a long, narrow flag, or piece of material used as a decoration
  
• a newspaper headline that runs across the entire page
  
• (computing) a data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape