barber vs pare

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. 

pare

verb
  • To remove the outer covering or skin of something with a cutting device, typically a knife. 

  • To reduce, diminish or trim gradually something as if by cutting off. 

  • To trim the hoof of a horse. 

  • To sharpen a pencil. 

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