Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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 lea.           --Tennyson.

         Huddling together on the public square . . . like a
         herd of panic-struck deer.               --Prescott.

Source : WordNet®

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"