huddling

Verb

huddle (third-person singular simple present huddles, present participle huddling, simple past and past participle huddled)

1. (intransitive) To crowd together.
   • The sheep huddled together seeking warmth.
2. (intransitive) To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arms close to the torso; to crouch; to assume a position similar to that of an embryo in the womb.
   • Just south of Wamphray station they overtook the runaway. The dim figure of Mitchell could be seen sitting huddled behind the stormboard. They shouted and whistled. He paid no attention.1950 January, David L. Smith, “A Runaway at Beattock”, in Railway Magazine, page 54
3. To get together and discuss a topic.
   • George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the...2012 November 2, Ken Belson, New York Times, retrieved 02 Nov 2012
4. (intransitive) To form a huddle.
5. (transitive) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
   • Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,[…]makes a medley and confusion.1689 December (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], Two Treatises of Government: […], London: […] Awnsham Churchill, […], →OCLC
6. (transitive) To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; usually with a following preposition or adverb (huddle on, huddle up, huddle together).
   • Huddle up a peace.1845, John Henry Newman, Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine

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