Crossword clues for huddle
huddle
- Giant get-together?
- Football strategy session
- Field meeting
- (informal) a quick private conference
- A disorganized and densely packed crowd
- Gridiron get-together
- Football conference?
- Crowd together
- Small group led off after obviously getting upset
- Prepare for a play
- Pre-snap meeting, in football
- Where plays may be discussed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Huddle \Hud"dle\, n.
A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a
confused manner; tumult; confusion. ``A huddle of ideas.''
--Addison.
Huddle \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 le
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--Tennyson.Huddling together on the public square . . . like a herd of panic-struck deer.
--Prescott.
Huddle \Hud"dle\, v. t.
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To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together, . . . makes a medley and confusion.
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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.
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: Huddled; huddling. The noun is from 1580s. U.S. football sense is from 1928.
Wiktionary
Muted, as if emitted by a huddled embryo n. 1 a dense and disorderly crowd 2 (context American football English) a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. v
1 (context intransitive English) To crowd together as when distressed or in fear. 2 (context intransitive English) 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. 3 To get together and discuss. 4 (context intransitive American football English) To form a huddle. 5 (context transitive English) To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system. 6 (context transitive English) 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'').
WordNet
n. a quick private conference [syn: powwow]
a disorganized and densely packed crowd; "a huddle of frightened women"
v. crowd or draw together; "let's huddle together--it's cold!" [syn: huddle together]
crouch or curl up; "They huddled outside in the rain" [syn: cower]
Wikipedia
Huddle is privately held cloud-based collaboration software company founded in London in 2006 by Alastair Mitchell and Andy McLoughlin. The company is co-headquartered in London and San Francisco with additional offices in Washington D.C. and New York City. , the company has raised approximately $40 million in three funding rounds from Jafco Ventures, Eden Ventures, Matrix Partners and angel investors.
Huddle has established the ''Huddle Foundation ''to provide completely free Huddle software packages to registered charities worldwide, including Barnardo’s, the Fair Trade Federation and UNICEF.
A huddle is an action of a sports team gathering together to talk to one another.
Huddle may also refer to:
- Huddle (surname)
- Huddle (software), collaboration and content management software
- Huddling, a type of kleptothermy, thermoregulation in biology
- Huddle (film), a 1932 American movie directed by Sam Wood and starring Ramon Novarro
In sport, a huddle is an action of a team gathering together, usually in a tight circle, to strategize, motivate or celebrate. It is a popular strategy for keeping opponents insulated from sensitive information, and acts as a form of insulation when the level of noise in the venue is such that normal on-field communication is difficult. Commonly the leader of the huddle is the team captain and it is the captain who will try to inspire his fellow team members to achieve success. Similarly after an event a huddle may take place to congratulate one another for the teams success, or to commiserate a defeat. The term "huddle" can be used as a verb as in "huddling up".
The huddle is commonly used in American football and Canadian football to strategize before each play; the offensive team's huddle is almost always led by the quarterback, and the defensive huddle is typically led by one of the linebackers. It is also popular in basketball, football and cricket.
The huddle became more widely used in cricket after the India national team used it to great success during the 2003 Cricket World Cup. The England team has imitated this technique with some success, notably in the 2005 Ashes series.
Huddle is a 1932 American Pre-Code film directed by Sam Wood and starring Ramon Novarro, Madge Evans, Ralph Graves and Una Merkel. This was the first of two films Ramon Novarro would make in 1932, and his first after appearing in the acclaimed, and successful, Mata Hari.
Huddle is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- David Huddle (born 1942), writer
- Franklin Huddle (born 1943), diplomat who served as a consul and an ambassador
- J. Klahr Huddle (1891–1959), United States Ambassador to Burma
- Molly Huddle (born 1984), American distance runner
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.