資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Stream \Stream\, v. t.
To send forth in a current or stream; to cause to flow; to
pour; as, his eyes streamed tears.
It may so please that she at length will stream Some
dew of grace into my withered heart. --Spenser.
2. To mark with colors or embroidery in long tracts.
The herald's mantle is streamed with gold. --Bacon.
3. To unfurl. --Shak.
{To stream the buoy}. (Naut.) See under {Buoy}.
Buoy \Buoy\, n. [D. boei buoy, fetter, fr. OF. boie, buie,
chain, fetter, F. bou['e]e a buoy, from L. boia. ``Boiae
genus vinculorum tam ferreae quam ligneae.'' --Festus. So
called because chained to its place.] (Naut.)
A float; esp. a floating object moored to the bottom, to mark
a channel or to point out the position of something beneath
the water, as an anchor, shoal, rock, etc.
{Anchor buoy}, a buoy attached to, or marking the position
of, an anchor.
{Bell buoy}, a large buoy on which a bell is mounted, to be
rung by the motion of the waves.
{Breeches buoy}. See under {Breeches}.
{Cable buoy}, an empty cask employed to buoy up the cable in
rocky anchorage.
{Can buoy}, a hollow buoy made of sheet or boiler iron,
usually conical or pear-shaped.
{Life buoy}, a float intended to support persons who have
fallen into the water, until a boat can be dispatched to
save them.
{Nut} or {Nun buoy}, a buoy large in the middle, and tapering
nearly to a point at each end.
{To stream the buoy}, to let the anchor buoy fall by the
ship's side into the water, before letting go the anchor.
{Whistling buoy}, a buoy fitted with a whistle that is blown
by the action of the waves.