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2 definitions found 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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