3 entries under this word
v. i. [imp. & p. p. HUDDLED; p. pr. & vb. n. HUDDLING.] [Ger. hudeln, to do a thing hastily and carelessly, to bungle, O. Ger. hudel, huddel, rag, trash.] To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; 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.
Sense 1. To perform hastily, carelessly, and negligently; to hurry and slight. Let him forecast his work with timely care, Which else is huddled when the skies are fair. Dryden.
Sense 2. To put on; to do in haste or roughly:—usually with a following preposition or adverb; as, to huddle on, to put or press on in hurry and confusion; to huddle up, to put or press together in haste; to huddle together, to crowd together confusedly; to assemble without order. Now, in all haste, they huddle on Their hoods and cloaks. Swift.
Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion. Locke.
n. A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together without order or regularity; tumult; confusion.