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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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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Huddle" Quotes from Famous Books

... and the next was almost flung by his swerving horse into a vehicle that blocked the road. Its blurred outlines presently resolved themselves into an automobile, crouched in the bottom of which was an inert huddle ...

— Ridgway of Montana - (Story of To-Day, in Which the Hero Is Also the Villain) • William MacLeod Raine

... need as temptation to give any description of it, with its sheets of glass and steel, its lace curtains, crude-colored walls and floor and couches, and glittering chandeliers of a thousand prisms. Everybody knows the kind of room—a huddle of the chimera ambition wallowing in the chaos of the commonplace—no miniature world of harmonious abiding. The only interesting thing in it was, that on all sides were doors, which must lead out of it, and might lead to a ...

— Mary Marston • George MacDonald

... through in covered wagons with their families and household stuff. In pleasant weather this mode of travelling was not disagreeable, but in rainy or cold weather it was very uncomfortable. No one could walk in the deep mud: the whole family were obliged to huddle together in the back part of the wagon, wrapped in bed-quilts or other covers, while the driver, generally the head of the family, sat on the seat in front, exposed to the cold or driving rain. The horses slowly dragged the heavily-laden wagon through the mud, ...

— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 26, July 1880. • Various

... who had been sitting in a lax kind of huddle, seemed to know his thoughts, and sat ...

— Lord of the World • Robert Hugh Benson

... awake, bade the lad to follow him but make no noise. To the sentinels at the great door, in the square, at the edge of the town, he gave the word of the night, and so issued with the boy from the huddle of flat-roofed houses, overhung by palm-trees, to the ...

— Sir Mortimer • Mary Johnston

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