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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

... lost his revolver in the fall. With clenched fists he struck hard and sure. They swarmed upon him, so many that they got in each other's way. Now he was down, now up again. They swayed to and fro in a huddle, as does a black bear surrounded by a pack of dogs. Still the man at the heart of the melee struck—and struck—and struck again. Men went down and were trodden under foot, but he reeled on, stumbling as he went, turning, twisting, hitting hard and sure with all ...

— A Daughter of the Dons - A Story of New Mexico Today • William MacLeod Raine

... and to each other, to accomplish one of the greatest acts in history? The vultures will leave us alone unless we destroy each other; we need not fear them. We are not slaves to be terrified into compliance with evil, neither are we sheep that we need huddle trembling together at ...

— An American Politician • F. Marion Crawford

... the one second's time, it was done, and Rawson's body, his arms wide flung, was hurtling downward into the waiting throat and the threatening red glow from within. Then the carriers of the flame throwers vanished again into the pit, and there was left only a huddle of giant figures that tore at the loose sand and ...

— Two Thousand Miles Below • Charles Willard Diffin

... against them; a great part, probably the large majority, remained or soon went back to work for their old employers; but a considerable part began an aimless roaming to enjoy their new liberty, or huddle around the stations where the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau doled out some relief. As to their education, popular opinion was no less unfavorable than as to their labor. The common expressions were "learning will spoil the negro for work," "negro education would be the ruin of the South," and ...

— The Negro and the Nation - A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement • George S. Merriam

... sat there in a frightened huddle. Mary was on a low chair by the infant's cot, Blanche in her lap, Tom and Harry leaning against her, and Aubrey almost asleep. Mary held up her finger as Ethel entered, and whispered, "Hush! don't ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

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