litter vs scrap

litter

noun
  • Collectively, items discarded on the ground. 

  • Material used as bedding for animals. 

  • A platform mounted on two shafts, or a more elaborate construction, designed to be carried by two (or more) people to transport one (in luxury models sometimes more) third person(s) or (occasionally in the elaborate version) a cargo, such as a religious idol. 

  • A covering of straw for plants. 

  • Absorbent material used in an animal's litter tray 

  • The offspring of a mammal born in one birth. 

  • Layer of fallen leaves and similar organic matter in a forest floor. 

verb
  • To drop or throw trash without properly disposing of it (as discarding in public areas rather than trash receptacles). 

  • To give birth to, used of animals. 

  • To strew (a place) with scattered articles. 

  • To supply (cattle etc.) with litter; to cover with litter, as the floor of a stall. 

  • To scatter carelessly about. 

  • To be supplied with litter as bedding; to sleep or make one's bed in litter. 

  • To produce a litter of young. 

scrap

noun
  • Discarded objects (especially metal) that may be dismantled to recover their constituent materials, junk. 

  • Loose-leaf tobacco of a low grade, such as sweepings left over from handling higher grades. 

  • A (small) piece; a fragment; a detached, incomplete portion. 

  • A fight, tussle, skirmish. 

  • The crisp substance that remains after drying out animal fat. 

  • The smallest amount. 

  • A piece of deep-fried batter left over from frying fish, sometimes sold with chips. 

  • A Hispanic criminal, especially a Mexican or one affiliated with the Sureno gang. 

  • Leftover food. 

verb
  • To discard. 

  • To make into scrap. 

  • to fight 

  • To stop working on indefinitely. 

  • To scrapbook; to create scrapbooks. 

  • To dispose of at a scrapyard. 

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