barber vs lop

barber

verb
  • To cut the hair or beard of (a person). 

  • To chatter, talk. 

noun
  • A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries. 

  • A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules. 

  • A person whose profession is cutting (usually male) customers' hair and beards. 

lop

verb
  • To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. 

  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. 

  • To allow to hang down. 

noun
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree. 

  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat. 

  • A flea. 

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