1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 747 Smelts and Squids..come on shore in great abundance, fleeing from the deuouring cod.

1620 J. Mason Briefe Disc. New-found-land 5 What should I speake of..Squides a rare kind of fish at his mouth squirting mattere forth like Inke.

1791 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 81 44 I send you..some of the bills of the fish called Squids (which are supposed to be the food of spermaceti whales).

1809 Naval Chron. 21 22 Squids, a squalid kind of fish.

1863 J. Couch Hist. Fishes Brit. Islands II. 46 From one example I took two Gobies and a Launce: from another a Squid, (Loligo media), five inches in length.

1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 27 Hunting for crabs, shrimps, squids, and other invertebrate animals.

1839 T. Beale Nat. Hist. Sperm Whale 34 An animal of the cuttle-fish kind, called by sailors the ‘squid’, and by naturalists the ‘sepia octopus’.

1859 Huxley in Macmillan's Mag. Dec. 145 Loligo, the squid of modern seas, appears in the lias, or at the bottom of the mesozoic series.

1880 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) 435 The squid (Sepioteuthis australis) is highly appreciated.

a1862 H. D. Thoreau Cape Cod (1865) vi. 107 Their bait was a bullfrog, or several small frogs in a bunch, for want of squid.

1880 I. L. Bird Unbeaten Tracks Japan II. 213 These lights are much used in fishing, specially for squid.

1883 Cassell's Family Mag. July 469/1 Neat little cuttle-fish..are dried whole, for inland carriage, and others are salted and sold as squid.

1947 J. G. Crowther & R. Whiddington Sci. at War iv. 160 A three-barrelled mortar for throwing three projectiles each was developed, and named the Squid... The expenditure of ammunition required to sink a U-boat with the Squid was very much less than with depth charges. The production of the Squid was ordered direct from the drawing board in the urgency of the situation in 1943.

1962 W. Granville Dict. Sailors' Slang 112/2 Squid box, housing of a squid, a triple-barrelled mortar for firing depth charges. It is placed on the sterns of destroyers and frigates.

1973 J. Quick Dict. Weapons 418/3 Squid, a British shipborne surface-to-sub-surface medium-range antisubmarine mortar system. A triple-barreled mortar fires a pattern of three mortar bombs which are programmed to give a three dimensional explosive pattern ahead of the target.

1822 J. M. Good Study Med. I. 288 The mass is usually loaded with hard bony fragments, by the seamen called squids, which are the beaks of the cuttle-fish, on which the whale is known to feed.

1883 Cent. Mag. 383 Whether spoon-bait, bone-squid or other like lure.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 18 Squid-beaks enough to fill two water-buckets were taken from the stomach.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 11 (note) As squid-bills are sometimes found in the lumps of ambergrease, it may be inferred, that ambergrease is some of the excrement from squid-food.

1883 in E. E. Morris Austral Eng. (1898) 435 None of the Squid family seems to be sought after, although certain kinds are somewhat abundant in our waters.

1867 F. H. Ludlow Little Brother 96 He can man his main-sheet with one hand, feel his squid line with the other, and tend his tiller between his knees.

1884 G. B. Goode in G. B. Goode et al. Fisheries U.S.: Sect. I 201 The ‘Squid School’ of Nantucket and other parts of the coast.

1897 R. Kipling Captains Courageous vi, in McClure's Mag. Feb. 344/2 A little shiny piece of squid-tentacle at the tip of a clam-baited hook.

1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 170 In many stations more than a dozen boats are engaged in Squid-catching.

1881 Cassell's Nat. Hist. V. 710 The fishermen go out in punts Squid-jigging of an evening, to catch bait required for the next day's fishing.