0 present participle of huddle --
1 to come close together in a group, or to hold your arms and legs close to your body, especially because of cold or fear: --
It is named after the act of huddling in football.
Huddling in static strongpoints simply concedes the field to the insurgents.
Huddling together may have also helped the houses survive to the present day: they were poorly built and had little structural integrity.
This strategy, similar to huddling in small mammals, makes use of body heat from all the organisms and lowers heat loss.
At night, troops will split into sleeping parties huddling closely together to keep warm.
Another mechanism for social integration is prolonged physical contact or huddling.
You have delayed rapidity of mobilisation by collecting troops from all quarters and huddling them together in particular battalions without regard from whence they came and how they were raised.
The new criminal justice boards, which have been set up on a county-wide basis, need local one-stop shops, rather than huddling together away from their customers and the public.
