collect vs huddle

collect

verb
  • To gather together; amass. 

  • To get; particularly, get from someone. 

  • To infer; to conclude. 

  • To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. 

  • To come together in a group or mass. 

  • To collect payments. 

  • To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). 

noun
  • The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. 

adj
  • To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. 

adv
  • With payment due from the recipient. 

huddle

verb
  • To form a huddle. 

  • To get together and discuss a topic. 

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

  • 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 crowd together. 

  • 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). 

  • To hesitate during play while thinking about one's next move. 

adj
  • Huddled, confused, congested. 

noun
  • A brief meeting of all the players from one team that are on the field with the purpose of planning the following play. 

  • A hesitation during play to think about one's next move. 

  • A dense and disorderly crowd. 

How often have the words collect and huddle occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )