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noun

Huddle n. A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion. "A huddle of ideas."

verb

Huddle v. t.

To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. "Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,... makes a medley and confusion."

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." "Let him forescat his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair." "Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone."

Huddle v. i. (past & past part. huddled; pres. part. huddling) To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd. "The cattle huddled on the lea." "Huddling together on the public square... like a herd of panic-struck deer."

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"Huddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... old, friendly landmarks, Donald drew near the rendezvous. He knew the place well. It was slightly off the trail, behind a bowlder. At last he reached it and peered around. There, sleeping in a huddle, his feet to a camp-fire, the sleigh snow-banked as a wind break, and the dogs curled in a black-and-white, steaming bundle, Peter Rainy ...

— The Wilderness Trail • Frank Williams

... show me the glory of the town for so much an hour, and with him I wandered far. He conceived that all this turmoil and squash was a thing to be reverently admired, that it was good to huddle men together in fifteen layers, one atop of the other, and to dig holes ...

— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling

... the same air as of one assuming garments which do not belong to her, she put on the faded blue flannel dressing-gown. Then she walked to the southern window. None of the glories of Oxford were visible from it; only the bare branches of trees through which appeared a huddle of somewhat sordid looking roofs and the unimposing spire of St. Aloysius. With the same air, questioning yet as in a dream, she turned to the western window, which was open. Below, in its wintry dulness, lay the garden of ...

— The Invader - A Novel • Margaret L. Woods

... frenziedly down a companionway for the cabin he knew was Ruth Allaire's. Was he in time? Could he save her if he found her? His mind was in a turmoil of half-formed plans as he rushed madly down the corridor to find the body of the girl a limp huddle across the threshold of ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, June, 1930 • Various

... hives, when the temperature out of doors falls suddenly and severely, the bees at once feel the unfavorable change; they are obliged in self defence to huddle together to keep warm, and thus large portions of the brood comb are often abandoned, and the brood either destroyed at once by the cold, or so enfeebled that they never recover from the shock. Let every bee keeper, in all his operations, ...

— Langstroth on the Hive and the Honey-Bee - A Bee Keeper's Manual • L. L. Langstroth

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