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Answer for the clue "Where plays may be discussed ", 6 letters:
huddle

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Word definitions for huddle in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1570s, "to heap or crowd together," probably from Low German hudern "to cover, to shelter," from Middle Low German huden "to cover up," from Proto-Germanic *hud- (see hide (v.)). Compare also Middle English hoderen "heap together, huddle" (c.1300). Related: ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADVERB around ▪ The inhabitants huddle around huge log fires in timber halls protected by massive stockades. ▪ Four family members were found huddled around the bathtub; three other victims were discovered in the bedroom. ...

Usage examples of huddle.

All the while the shaft of phosphorescence from the well was getting brighter and brighter, bringing to the minds of the huddled men, a sense of doom and abnormality which far outraced any image their conscious minds could form.

He could not see the pilot, but he had a fair idea where the man would be huddled on the floor, and he was just aiming at that part of the floor when the helicopter veered sharply up the cliff.

Sally thought of Diamond, huddled down in the front of the Alfa, and bought the largest bottle of Chivas the meager contents of his wallet could afford.

Staid club members stared when they saw Weston stride by, huddling a wrapped package under the fancy alpaca coat that he was wearing.

While Fastrada was glaring at Lady Adalhaid, and the other ladies-in-waiting were huddled together as if they feared the queens displeasure would be visited on them, Lady Ansa made a quick, surreptitious gesture, pointing to a pile of green and blue pillows.

The Baudelaire orphans looked around them, and huddled together as if they were still in a dark hallway instead of outdoors in broad daylight, standing amid the ashy ruins of their destroyed home.

Madame Aubain and the children, huddled at the end of the field, were trying to jump over the ditch.

The women huddled together around the younger son, keeping their eyes averted and heads bent.

They stood huddled together, their faces averted, staring at the wall.

Dugo Bagy leaned in, and Han and Chewie did likewise, the three going into an informal huddle.

Cletia sat on one side of the fire, the Capidarans on the other, huddled under their collection of coats and blankets, with a sullen Balin in her corner.

The soldiers were affected by the fears of the Basha, and they huddled together in a group.

Half-visible through the date palms a huddle of mud-walled houses was the village called Bayt Faris, the tribal center.

For twenty miles round, in Beit Khalifa, Eski Baghdad, and elsewhere, is one confused huddle of ruins.

Then he crept back again to the wall of the house, where he huddled between a Berberine playing a darabukkeh and a man of the Fayoum who chanted the fatihah from the Koran.