HUDDLED

huddled

(adjective) crowded or massed together; “give me...your huddled masses”; “the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

huddled

simple past tense and past participle of huddle

Adjective

huddled (not comparable)

crowded together in a huddle

crouched

Source: Wiktionary


HUDDLE

Hud"dle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Huddled; p. pr. & vb. n. Huddling.] Etym: [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.]

Definition: 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. Tennyson. Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic- struck deer. Prescott.

Hud"dle, v. t.

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

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

Hud"dle, n.

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

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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