▪ I. ˈhuddling, vbl. n.
[f. huddle v. + -ing1.]
The action of the vb. huddle, in various senses: esp. a confused or disorderly crowding together.
| 1581 Lambarde Eiren. i. ix. (1602) 41 By the vntoward huddeling of things together, which were at strife the one with the other of them. 1638 Wilkins New World ii. (1707) 12 What a huddling and confusion must there be, if there were two Places of Gravity. 1841 [see huddle v. 8]. 1869 Lonsdale Gloss., Huddlin(g), an embracing, a cuddling. |
▪ II. ˈhuddling, ppl. a.
[f. huddle v. + -ing2.]
That huddles: in various senses of the verb.
(Drant's use is perh. founded on the literal sense assigned to L. satira of ‘hotch-potch, medley’.)
| 1566 Drant Horace Sat. A, Next hudling Horace braue in Satyres grace. 1583 Babington Commandm. iii. (1637) 26 It should be an offence very fearefull if..Judges, Justices, &c. should minister oaths..in such hudling, posting, and unreverent manner, as that a man can scarce tell what he saith. 1634 Milton Comus 495 Thyrsis! whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal. 1816 Scott Antiq. xvii, The lake discharged itself into the huddling and tumultuous brook. 1871 R. Ellis Catullus lxiii. 28 On a sudden yell'd in huddling agitation every tongue. |
Hence ˈhuddlingly adv., in confused haste.
| 1615 Crooke Body of Man 42 The property of heate, is to confound and make a medley of all things, shuffling in one thing hudlingly vpon another. |