streamline (stremʻlin)

See line2, and line of flow (under flow1). - Stream-line surface. See surface. streamling (strēm'ling), n. [ A you sand Streamlings that n'er saw the Sun, With tribute silver to his service run. Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, ii., The Captaines, stream-tin (strēm'tin), n. In mining , tin ore, or oxid of tin, obtained in streaming (which see). stream-wheel (strēm'hwel), n. An undershot wheel, or current-wheel. stream-works (strēm'wèrks), n. sing. and pl. In mining, a locality where the detrital deposits are washed in order to procure the valuable metal or ore which they may contain; alluvial washings, or surface mining. The words stream works and stream (v. t.) are rarely, if ever, used except with reference to the separation of tin ore from detrital deposits.