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Huddle \Hud"dle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Huddled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Huddling}.] [Cf. OE. hoderen, hodren, to cover, keep, warm;
perh. akin to OE. huden, hiden, to hide, E. hide, and orig.
meaning, to get together for protection in a safe place. Cf.
{Hide} to conceal.]
To press together promiscuously, from confusion,
apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to
press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
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The cattle huddled on the lea. --Tennyson.
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Huddling together on the public square . . . like a
herd of panic-struck deer. --Prescott.
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Huddle \Hud"dle\, v. t.
1. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to
assemble without order or system.
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Our adversary, huddling several suppositions
together, . . . makes a medley and confusion.
--Locke.
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2. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do
imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or
adverb; as, to huddle on; to huddle up; to huddle
together. "Huddle up a peace." --J. H. Newman.
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Let him forescat his work with timely care,
Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.
--Dryden.
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Now, in all haste, they huddle on
Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.
--Swift.
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Huddle \Hud"dle\, n.
A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a
confused manner; tumult; confusion. "A huddle of ideas."
--Addison.
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