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   Huddle (?), 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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   Huddle, 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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   Huddle, 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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