black squall

[ blak skwawl ]

noun

, Meteorology.

1. a squall accompanied by very dark clouds and usually heavy rain:

   Daylight all but vanished as the black squall raced across the lake toward our campsite.

Word History and Origins

Origin of black squall¹

First recorded in 1820–25

Example Sentences

Next week everybody at Sarnia was grieved to hear that another of Captain Pierpoint's vessels had gone down off Manitoulin Point in that dreadful black squall on Thursday evening.

From Project Gutenberg

A "black squall," as they call it on the lakes, was blowing down from the Sault Ste. Marie.

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A black squall was blowing down from the Sault Ste. Marie; and they lay at anchor out in the lake, tossing and pitching, opposite the green mouldering hull of the Fortuna.

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The heavens have taken a deeper blue; so among the cowslips we contemplate their azure until a black squall blows along, stings our rash necks with perilous hailstones and drives us headlong to the shelter of the pale green hedgerows.

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I should not forget to mention that the only one not really alarmed during the terrible black Squall was that busy, merry wee body Matty.

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