Hud·dle v. i. [imp. & p. p. Huddled p. pr. & vb. n. Huddling ]  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.
  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"