Litter vs Huddle - What's the difference?

As a noun litter

is (countable) a platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

As a verb litter

is to drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

As a proper noun huddle is

litter

English

Noun

(wikipedia litter)

(countable) A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol.

* Shakespeare

There is a litter ready; lay him in 't.

(countable) The offspring of a mammal born in one birth.

* D. Estrange

A wolf came to a sow, and very kindly offered to take care of her litter .

(uncountable) Material used as bedding for animals.

(uncountable) Collectively, items discarded on the ground.

* Jonathan Swift

Strephon / Stole in, and took a strict survey / Of all the litter as it lay.

(uncountable) Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray

(uncountable) Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor.

A covering of straw for plants.

* Evelyn

Take off the litter from your kernel beds.

Synonyms

* (platform designed to carry a person or a load): palanquin, sedan chair, stretcher, cacolet * (items discarded on the ground): waste, rubbish, garbage (US), trash (US), junk

Derived terms

* cat litter * litter bin * litter bug, litterbug * litter frog

Verb

(en verb)

To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles).

* By tossing the bottle out the window, he was littering .

To strew with scattered articles.

* Jonathan Swift

the room with volumes littered round

To give birth to, used of animals.

* Sir Thomas Browne

We might conceive that dogs were created blind, because we observe they were littered so with us.

* Shakespeare

The son that she did litter here, / A freckled whelp hagborn.

To produce a litter of young.

* Macaulay

A desert where the she-wolf still littered .

To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall.

* Bishop Hacke

Tell them how they litter their jades.

* Dryden

For his ease, well littered was the floor.

To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter.

* Habington

The inn where he and his horse littered .

Derived terms

* litterer

Anagrams

* ---- ==Jèrriais==

Verb

(roa-jer-verb)

to wrestle

Derived terms

huddle

English

Noun

(en noun)

a dense and disorderly crowd

(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.

Verb

(huddl)

To crowd together as when distressed or in fear.

* 1912 : (Edgar Rice Burroughs), (Tarzan of the Apes), Chapter 4

During all these operations the apes who had entered sat huddled near the door watching their chief, while those outside strained and crowded to catch a glimpse of what transpired within.

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.

To get together and discuss.

* 2012 November 2, Ken Belson, "[http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/03/sports/new-york-city-marathon-will-not-be-held-sunday.html?hp&_r=0]," New York Times (retrieved 2 November 2012):

George Hirsch, chairman of the board of Road Runners, said officials huddled all day Friday, hoping to devise an alternate race. They considered replacing the marathon with a race that would comprise the final 10 miles of marathon, starting at the base of the Queensboro 59th Street Bridge on the Manhattan side. But that was not deemed plausible, Mr. Hirsch said.

(American football) To form a huddle.

To crowd (things) together; to mingle confusedly; to assemble without order or system.

* (John Locke)

Our adversary, huddling several suppositions together,makes a medley and confusion.

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 ).

* J. H. Newman

Huddle up a peace.

* (John Dryden)

Let him forecast his work with timely care, / Which else is huddled when the skies are fair.

* (Jonathan Swift)

Now, in all haste, they huddle on / Their hoods, their cloaks, and get them gone.