[f. SQUATTER v.] The action of the verb, in various senses.

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1598.  Florio, Squacquarata,… a squattring, a squirting.

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1611.  Cotgr., Espanchement, a disordered, or hastie squattering, spilling, sheeding, or pouring out.

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1694.  Motteux, Rabelais, V. xvi. 68. The Devil of any thing we do, but fizzling, farting, funking, squattering, dozing.

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1894.  Crockett, Raiders, xiii. 121. We could hear … multitudinous squatterings in the water as of a thousand wounded wild ducks.

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