To stream the buoy. (Naut.) See under Buoy.
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.
Dryden.
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.
Lowell.