ascent vs knoll

ascent

noun
  • An eminence, hill, or high place. 

  • The act of ascending; a motion upwards. 

  • An increase, for example in popularity or hierarchy 

  • The ascender height in a typeface. 

  • The degree of elevation of an object, or the angle it makes with a horizontal line; inclination; gradient; steepness 

  • The way or means by which one ascends. 

knoll

noun
  • A small mound or rounded hill. 

  • A rounded, underwater hill with a prominence of less than 1,000 metres, which does not breach the water's surface. 

  • A knell. 

verb
  • To ring (a bell) mournfully; to knell. 

  • To sound (something) like a bell; to knell. 

  • To call (someone, to church) by sounding or making a knell (as a bell, a trumpet, etc). 

  • To arrange related objects in parallel or at 90 degree angles. 

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