mess vs raft

mess

noun
  • A large quantity or number. 

  • A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding. 

  • A building or room in which mess is eaten. 

  • A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common, especially military personnel who eat at the same table. 

  • The milk given by a cow at one milking. 

  • Excrement. 

  • A person in a state of (especially emotional) turmoil or disarray; an emotional wreck. 

  • A dessert of fruit and cream, similar to a fool. 

  • A group of iguanas. 

  • A set of four (from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner). 

verb
  • To eat (with others). 

  • To make soiled by ejaculating. 

  • To screw around with, to bother, to be annoying to. 

  • To supply with a mess. 

  • To belong to a mess. 

  • To make soiled by defecating. 

  • To take meals with a mess. 

  • To throw into disorder or to ruin. 

  • To interfere. 

raft

noun
  • A large (but unspecified) number, a lot. 

  • A mass of congealed solids that forms on a consommé because of the protein in the egg white. 

  • A thick crowd of seabirds or sea mammals, particularly a group of penguins when in the water. 

  • Any flattish thing, usually wooden, used in a similar fashion. 

  • A collection of logs, fallen trees, etc. which obstructs navigation in a river. 

  • A slice of toast. 

  • A flat-bottomed craft able to float and drift on water, used for transport or as a waterborne platform. 

  • A square array of sensors forming part of a large telescope. 

verb
  • To convey on a raft. 

  • To make into a raft. 

  • To travel by raft. 

  • To dock (toolbars, etc.) so that they share horizontal or vertical space. 

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