buckram vs cram

buckram

verb
  • To stiffen with or as if with buckram. 

noun
  • A coarse cloth of cotton, linen or hemp, stiffened with size or glue, used in bookbinding to cover and protect the books, in garments to keep them in the form intended, and for wrappers to cover merchandise. 

  • A plant, Allium ursinum, also called ramson, wild garlic, or bear garlic. 

cram

verb
  • To press, force, or drive, particularly in filling, or in thrusting one thing into another; to stuff; to fill to superfluity. 

  • To fill with food to satiety; to stuff. 

  • To study hard; to swot. 

  • To eat greedily, and to satiety; to stuff oneself. 

  • To put hastily through an extensive course of memorizing or study, as in preparation for an examination. 

noun
  • A warp having more than two threads passing through each dent or split of the reed. 

  • Information hastily memorized. 

  • A small friendship book with limited space for people to enter their information. 

  • The act of cramming (forcing or stuffing something). 

  • A mathematical board game in which players take turns placing dominoes horizontally or vertically until no more can be placed, the loser being the player who cannot continue. 

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