streamer

From Middle English stremer, stremere, equivalent to stream +‎ -er.

• Rhymes: -iːmə(ɹ)

streamer (plural streamers)

1. A long, narrow flag, or piece of material used or seen as a decoration.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

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

   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter V, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326:

     Breezes blowing from beds of iris quickened her breath with their perfume; she saw the tufted lilacs sway in the wind, and the streamers of mauve-tinted wistaria swinging, all a-glisten with golden bees; she saw a crimson cardinal winging through the foliage, and amorous tanagers flashing like scarlet flames athwart the pines.

2. Strips of paper or other material used as confetti.
3. A newspaper headline that runs across the entire page.
4. (heading) In computing.
   1. A data storage system, mainly used to produce backups, in which large quantities of data are transferred to a continuously moving tape.
   2. Any mechanism for streaming data.

      a video streamer

   3. (Internet) A person who streams activities on their computer (especially video gaming) to a live online audience.
5. (fishing) In fly fishing, a variety of wet fly designed to mimic a minnow.
6. (mining) One who searches for stream tin.
7. A stream or column of light shooting upward from the horizon, constituting one of the forms of the aurora borealis.
   • (Can we date this quote?) James Russell Lowell

     While overhead the North's dumb streamers shoot.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Macaulay to this entry?)

• stream

• masterer, remaster, restream