crossword vs skein

crossword

noun
  • The grid of such a puzzle 

  • A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word. 

skein

noun
  • A web, a weave, a tangle. 

  • A group of wild fowl (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight. 

  • A winning streak. 

  • The membrane of a fish ovary. 

  • A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle. 

  • A quantity of yarn, thread, etc. put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel. 

verb
  • To wind or weave into a skein. 

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