"astream" meaning in English

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          "text": "the causeways to Miami Beach all astream with traffic",
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          "text": "1990, Thomas McGuane, “Fishing the Big Hole” in An Outside Chance, Boston: Houghton Mifflin / Seymour Lawrence, p. 249,\n[…] the kind of sleepy, merry conversation I associate with the beginning of a day astream."
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