crowd vs spackle

crowd

verb
  • To fill by pressing or thronging together 

  • To carry excessive sail in the hope of moving faster. 

  • To press together or collect in numbers 

  • To press forward; to advance by pushing. 

  • To push, to press, to shove. 

  • To approach another ship too closely when it has right of way. 

  • To press by solicitation; to urge; to dun; hence, to treat discourteously or unreasonably. 

  • To press or drive together, especially into a small space; to cram. 

noun
  • A group of people congregated or collected into a close body without order. 

  • A fiddle. 

  • A group of people united or at least characterised by a common interest. 

  • The so-called lower orders of people; the populace, vulgar. 

  • Several things collected or closely pressed together; also, some things adjacent to each other. 

spackle

verb
  • To fill gaps with something, as if spackling; to speckle 

  • To fill or repair with a plastic paste. 

  • To fill cracks or holes with a spackle. 

noun
  • Any powder (originally containing gypsum plaster and glue) that when mixed with water forms a plastic paste, which is used to fill cracks and holes in plaster. 

  • A plastic paste meant for filling cracks and holes in plaster. 

  • A paste-like substance that fills a gap. 

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