Huddle word meaning and definition

[noun] (informal) a quick private conference
[noun] a disorganized and densely packed crowd; "a huddle of frightened women"
[verb] crowd or draw together
[verb] crouch or curl up

\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.
\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. 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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