barber vs prune

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. 

prune

verb
  • To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. 

  • To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). 

  • To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure. 

  • To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. 

noun
  • The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. 

  • Something wrinkly like a prune. 

  • An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. 

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