HUDDLE
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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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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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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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