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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.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of black squall1

First recorded in 1820–25
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Example Sentences

He saw a silent black squall which had eaten up already one-third of the sky.

Keeping low in the water, they floated on down in the black squall of wind and rain which now came on them.

All nature seems invigorated by this short battle of the elements and to be indebted to the bounty of the black squall.

Behind that was wind, a summer gale, the black squall dreaded by the Siwashes.

It was a new moon; and a heavy black squall gathering over the coast increased the profound darkness of the night.

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