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white squall
[ hwahyt skwawl, wahyt ]
noun
- a maritime squall whose approach is indicated by whitecaps and turbulent water rather than by the clouds that usually accompany a squall:
The sudden fogs, white squalls, and terrible ice storms made navigating Lake Superior treacherous.
white squall
noun
- a violent highly localized weather disturbance at sea, in which the surface of the water is whipped to a white spray by the winds
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Word History and Origins
Origin of white squall1
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Example Sentences
It was just a clean reach from the Noman to Cowes, and some of the puffs came off the Island with the rush of a white squall.
Wrath of celestial goddesses darkened the face of Mrs. Croydon as a white squall blackens the face of the sky.
It was about six in the morning when the blow came on with a white squall, and, as usual, from the northward.
Deeper and deeper the blackness came rushing down upon us, an angry ridge of foam before it—the white squall showing its teeth.
Just after that a sort of a white squall struck the ship, and the old man give just the wrong orders.
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