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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Huddle \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.
The cattle huddled on the lea. --Tennyson.
Huddling together on the public square . . . like a
herd of panic-struck deer. --Prescott.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
huddled
adj 1: squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled
low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch
hunkered down" [syn: {crouched}, {crouching}, {hunkered},
{hunkered down}]
2: crowded or massed together; "give me...your huddled masses";
"the huddled sheep turned their backs against the wind"
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