All 25 Uses of

squall
in
Moby Dick

"Not much," I replied—"nothing but water; considerable horizon though, and there's a squall coming up, I think."†
Chpt 16-18

squall = windy storm

"Whew!" he whistled at last—"the squall's gone off to leeward, I think.†
Chpt 16-18

But the third Emir, now seeing himself all alone on the quarter-deck, seems to feel relieved from some curious restraint; for, tipping all sorts of knowing winks in all sorts of directions, and kicking off his shoes, he strikes into a sharp but noiseless squall of a hornpipe right over the Grand Turk's head; and then, by a dexterous sleight, pitching his cap up into the mizentop for a shelf, he goes down rollicking so far at least as he remains visible from the deck, reversing all other processions, by bringing up the rear with music.†
Chpt 34-36

"Corkscrew!" cried Ahab, "aye, Queequeg, the harpoons lie all twisted and wrenched in him; aye, Daggoo, his spout is a big one, like a whole shock of wheat, and white as a pile of our Nantucket wool after the great annual sheep-shearing; aye, Tashtego, and he fan-tails like a split jib in a squall.†
Chpt 34-36

I heard old Ahab tell him he must always kill a squall, something as they burst a waterspout with a pistol—fire your ship right into it!†
Chpt 40-42

From its snowy aspect, the gauntleted ghost of the Southern Seas has been denominated the White Squall.†
Chpt 40-42 *

Had you followed Captain Ahab down into his cabin after the squall that took place on the night succeeding that wild ratification of his purpose with his crew, you would have seen him go to a locker in the transom, and bringing out a large wrinkled roll of yellowish sea charts, spread them before him on his screwed-down table.†
Chpt 43-45

"Give way, men," whispered Starbuck, drawing still further aft the sheet of his sail; "there is time to kill a fish yet before the squall comes.†
Chpt 46-48

The whole crew were half suffocated as they were tossed helter-skelter into the white curdling cream of the squall.†
Chpt 46-48

Squall, whale, and harpoon had all blended together; and the whale, merely grazed by the iron, escaped.†
Chpt 46-48

The wind increased to a howl; the waves dashed their bucklers together; the whole squall roared, forked, and crackled around us like a white fire upon the prairie, in which, unconsumed, we were burning; immortal in these jaws of death!†
Chpt 46-48

Ere the squall came close to, the other boats had cut loose from their fish and returned to the ship in good time.†
Chpt 46-48

I suppose then, that going plump on a flying whale with your sail set in a foggy squall is the height of a whaleman's discretion?†
Chpt 49-51

considering that the particular disaster to our own particular boat was chiefly to be imputed to Starbuck's driving on to his whale almost in the teeth of a squall, and considering that Starbuck, notwithstanding, was famous for his great heedfulness in the fishery;†
Chpt 49-51

So, with his ivory leg inserted into its accustomed hole, and with one hand firmly grasping a shroud, Ahab for hours and hours would stand gazing dead to windward, while an occasional squall of sleet or snow would all but congeal his very eyelashes together.†
Chpt 49-51

Nevertheless there have occurred instances, well authenticated ones too, where the captain has been known for an uncommonly critical moment or two, in a sudden squall say—to seize hold of the nearest oarsman's hair, and hold on there like grim death.†
Chpt 52-54

Yes, and we flipped it at the rate of ten gallons the hour; and when the squall came (for it's squally off there by Patagonia), and all hands—visitors and all—were called to reef topsails, we were so top-heavy that we had to swing each other aloft in bowlines; and we ignorantly furled the skirts of our jackets into the sails, so that we hung there, reefed fast in the howling gale, a warning example to all drunken tars.†
Chpt 100-102

But those chaps there are worse yet—they are your white squalls, they.†
Chpt 40-42

Considering, therefore, that squalls and capsizings in the water and consequent bivouacks on the deep, were matters of common occurrence in this kind of life;†
Chpt 49-51

From the ship, the smoke of the torments of the boiling whale is going up like the smoke over a village of smithies; and to windward, a black cloud, rising up with earnest of squalls and rains, seems to quicken the activity of the excited seamen.†
Chpt 55-57

Definitions:

(1) (squall as in: a squall blew in)
sudden strong winds; or a storm -- usually at sea or in the snow
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
meaning too rare to warrant focus:

More rarely, squall can refer a loud cry or any commotion or disturbance such as an argument.