battering vs belting

battering

noun
  • A heavy beating. 

  • A large defeat. 

belting

noun
  • A beating with a belt. 

  • A thorough defeat; a thrashing. 

  • The material from which belts for machinery are made. 

  • A system of beltwork, as in a conveyor or other mechanical device. 

  • The act of singing in chest voice above one's vocal break in a higher range typically sung in head voice. 

adj
  • Very good; exceptional (can also be used adverbially) 

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