muck vs silt

muck

noun
  • Slimy mud, sludge. 

  • Heroin. 

  • Semen. 

  • Soft (or slimy) manure. 

  • The pile of discarded cards. 

  • Anything filthy or vile. Dirt; something that makes another thing dirty. 

  • Grub, slop, swill 

verb
  • To manure with muck. 

  • To shovel muck. 

  • To vomit. 

  • To do a dirty job. 

  • To pass, to fold without showing one's cards, often done when a better hand has already been revealed. 

silt

noun
  • Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water. 

  • Material with similar physical characteristics, whatever its origins or transport. 

  • A particle from 3.9 to 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale. 

verb
  • To flow through crevices; to percolate. 

  • To clog or fill with silt. 

  • To become clogged with silt. 

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