the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > in groups
a1848 O. W. Holmes 64 They every day her ribs did pound In squads of twenty.
1852 J. L. Motley Let. 22 June in (1889) I. v. 132 People..making excursions into the country in small squads.
1869 J. E. T. Rogers I. 84 In the Georgian era men and women were hanged in squads.