[f. SQUALL v.1] The action of the verb; loud discordant screaming.
1677. Miége, Fr. Dict., II. Squeaking, or squalling.
1712. Steele, Spect., No. 509, ¶ 2. With the Din of Squalings, Oaths and Cries of Beggars.
1740. Richardson, Pamela, xxvi. (1824), I. 40. I intended no harm to her … if you’d have left your squallings.
1788. Wesley, Wks. (1872), VII. 93. That disagreeable noise, the squalling of young children.
1911. Blackw. Mag., Feb., 271/1. What is that noise varying between the squalling of a thousand cats and the plaintive crying of a baby?
