busk vs tape

busk

noun
  • A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. 

  • A corset. 

verb
  • To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport. 

  • To tack, cruise about. 

tape

noun
  • Flexible material in a roll with a sticky surface on one or both sides; adhesive tape. 

  • Finishing tape, stretched across a track to mark the end of a race. 

  • Thin and flat paper, plastic or similar flexible material, usually produced in the form of a roll. 

  • The series of prices at which a financial instrument trades. 

  • Any video or audio recording, regardless of the method used to produce it. 

  • An unthinking, patterned response triggered by a particular stimulus. 

  • Magnetic or optical recording media in a roll; videotape or audio tape. 

  • The wrapping of the primary puck-handling surface of a hockey stick 

  • A strong flexible band rotating on pulleys for directing the sheets in a printing machine. 

verb
  • To record, originally onto magnetic tape. 

  • To bind with adhesive tape. 

  • To understand, figure out. 

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