1607 T. Middleton Michaelmas Terme i. sig. B3^v Wouldst thou a pretty beautifull—Iuicy squall liue in a poore thrumbd house i' th cuntry.

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Obeseau,..a young minx, or little proud squall.

1630 J. Taylor Wks. ii. 112 The rich Gull Gallant calls her Deare and Loue, Ducke, Lambe, Squall, Sweetheart, Cony, and his Doue.

1725 New Canting Dict. Squawl, a Voice; as, The Cove as a bien Squawl, the Fellow has a good Voice.

1906 Q. Jrnl. Royal Meteorol. Soc. 32 264 From the Kew curves we might be led to suppose that the velocity in the squall was approximately of the same magnitude as the velocity of the squall line.

1923 W. N. Shaw Air & its Ways 75 The surface boundary of the polar front in this region is called the ‘squall line’.

1950 Jrnl. Meteorol. 7 21/1 The term squall line is among the oldest in meteorology and is perhaps the least clearly defined. Prior to the general adoption..of the frontal theory of cyclones, it was customary to designate as a squall line any line of storms projecting in a general southerly and easterly direction from a depression... With the advent of the frontal theory, some of these lines of storms were redesignated more descriptively as cold fronts... There remained the lines of storms which appear in general in the warm sector of cyclones, roughly parallel to the cold front, and along which there is intense convective activity.

1979 L. J. Battan Fund. Meteorol. ix. 187 Most often the storms regarded as being in the organized class are those that form in lines or bands of thunderstorms, sometimes called squall lines... They commonly are initiated along a cold front, or ahead of, and nearly parallel to it.

1784 Ann. Agric. 2 43 In many of their fields they are troubled with springs; they call the wet spots squalls.

1794 Gen. View Agric. Essex (Messrs. Griggs) 21 Where there are squails [sic], with sand or drift gravel, the passages are apt to choak in a short time.

1794 P. Foot Gen. View Agric. Middlesex 45 (E.D.D.) The water..appears at the foot or in the middle of a declivity, and causes a spew, a squall, or boggy piece of ground.

1703 T. Baker Tunbridge-walks i. sig. B2^v - B3 To hear a parcel of Italian Eunuchs, like so many Cats, squawll out somewhat you don't understand.

1763 Philos. Trans. 1762 (Royal Soc.) 52 475 The woman squalled out, all of a sudden, that an adder..had stung her by the finger.

1779 Mirror No. 34 She sung, or rather squalled, a song of Sacchini's.

1835 Court Mag. 6 25/1 One of the common-place psalm tunes, squalled by charity children.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 54 He was not onely what the Latines call Compernis, knocking his Knees together, and going out squalling with his feet, but also haulted a little.

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Squawl, to throw a wry.