huddle

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A densely packed group or crowd, as of people or animals.
2. n. Football A brief gathering of a team's players behind the line of scrimmage to receive instructions for the next play.
3. n. A small private conference or meeting.
4. v. To crowd together, as from cold or fear.
5. v. To draw or curl one's limbs close to one's body; crouch.
6. v. Football To gather in a huddle.
7. v. Informal To gather together for conference or consultation: During the crisis the President's national security advisers huddled.
8. v. To cause to crowd together.
9. v. To draw (oneself) together in a crouch.
10. v. Chiefly British To arrange, do, or make hastily or carelessly.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To throw together in confusion; crowd together without order.
2. To perform in haste and disorder; put together or produce in a hurried manner: often with up, over, or together.
3. To put on in haste and disorder, as clothes: usually with on.
4. To hush (up).
5. To embrace.
6. To crowd; press together promiscuously; press or hurry in disorder.
7. In the University of Cambridge, to keep an act in a perfunctory manner, requiring no study, in order that the necessary oath may be taken.
8. n. A number of persons or things thrown together without rule or order; a confused crowd or cluster; a jumble.
9. n. A winning cast at shovel-board.
10. n. An old decrepit person.
11. n. A list.
12. Confused; jumbled.
13. In disorder; confusedly.

Wiktionary

1. n. a dense and disorderly crowd
2. n. American football a brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play.
3. v. intransitive to crowd together as when distressed or in fear
4. v. 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
5. v. To get together and discuss
6. v. intransitive, American football to form a huddle.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To press together promiscuously, from confusion, apprehension, or the like; to crowd together confusedly; to press or hurry in disorder; to crowd.
2. v. To crowd (things) together to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.
3. v. To do, make, or put, in haste or roughly; hence, to do imperfectly; -- usually with a following preposition or adverb
4. n. A crowd; a number of persons or things crowded together in a confused manner; tumult; confusion.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. crowd or draw together
2. n. (informal) a quick private conference
3. v. crouch or curl up
4. n. a disorganized and densely packed crowd