squall

verb

1. To cry or wail loudly.

   “Squalling was the word for it, Pew's anger rose so high at these objections; till at last, his passion completely taking the upper hand, he struck at them right and left in his blindness, and his stick sounded heavily on more than one.”

   “Squalling like an infuriated cat, the shadow crashed down”

   “The orchestra burst into a sudden loud squalling.”

   “Some night-bird, belike, or a sea-gull squalling below the headland.”

   “she wrapped the squalling, wriggling baby tightly into the fine cotton sheet”

2. To fall suddenly and forcefully, as if a squall.

   “[…] rain squalled fretfully against the schoolhouse roof. Although it had stopped by the time the afternoon recess was due, Miss Willie decided that it was too cold and raw for the children to be out a full half hour, so she sent them[…]”

   “[…] of squalling rain and a blustering westerly wind.”

   “Rain squalled sudden against the window. The Old Writer cursed and shouldered out the door.”

   “Rain squalled in heavy sheets across the street.”

   “[…] the sky opened up into a cloud-burst of squalling rain.”

noun

1. (often)A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.

   “Luckily she wasn’t there any more, no one was, when he returned from the Caribbean carnival damp-hatted and soaked through after being caught unprepared by a squall of hard, hot rain.”

   “With reports of the Japanese forces bearing down on them confirmed, Rear Admiral Sprague orders his ships east, heading towards a series of rain squalls, hoping for concealment. This will hopefully delay the Japanese closing the range, and also draw them away from the much-more-vulnerable landing ships.”

2. A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
3. A loud cry or wail.

   “The media present rising prices as a passing squall for the middle class, brought on by Vlad ’n’ Liz and resulting in spiking mortgage rates and fewer trips to Waitrose. But beneath those headlines are millions of others for whom the problem isn’t rising prices, but falling incomes.”