allow vs cramp

allow

verb
  • To not bar or obstruct. 

  • To render physically possible. 

  • To grant, give, admit, accord, afford, or yield; to let one have. 

  • To acknowledge; to accept as true; to concede; to accede to an opinion. 

  • To grant license to; to permit; to consent to. 

  • To grant (something) as a deduction or an addition; especially to abate or deduct. 

  • To take into account by making an allowance. 

  • To decide (a request) in favour of the party who raised it; to grant victory to a party regarding (a request). 

cramp

verb
  • To restrain to a specific physical position, as if with a cramp. 

  • (of a muscle) To contract painfully and uncontrollably. 

  • To form on a cramp. 

  • To affect with cramps or spasms. 

  • To fasten or hold with, or as if with, a cramp iron. 

  • To prohibit movement or expression of. 

  • To bind together; to unite. 

noun
  • A clamp for carpentry or masonry. 

  • A painful contraction of a muscle which cannot be controlled. 

  • That which confines or contracts. 

  • A piece of wood having a curve corresponding to that of the upper part of the instep, on which the upper leather of a boot is stretched to give it the requisite shape. 

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