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