[f. SQUATTER v.] The action of the verb, in various senses.
1598. Florio, Squacquarata, a squattring, a squirting.
1611. Cotgr., Espanchement, a disordered, or hastie squattering, spilling, sheeding, or pouring out.
1694. Motteux, Rabelais, V. xvi. 68. The Devil of any thing we do, but fizzling, farting, funking, squattering, dozing.
1894. Crockett, Raiders, xiii. 1201. Yet we could hear multitudinous squatterings in the water as of a thousand wounded wild ducks.