bear off vs swerve

bear off

verb
  • To restrain; to keep from approaching. 

  • To remove to a distance; to keep clear from rubbing against anything. 

  • To gain; to carry off, as a prize. 

  • To remove one of one's own checkers from the board. The first player to bear off all checkers is the winner. 

swerve

verb
  • To go out of one's way to avoid; to snub. 

  • To bend; to incline; to give way. 

  • To go out of a straight line; to deflect. 

  • To wander from any line prescribed, or from a rule or duty; to depart from what is established by law, duty, custom, or the like; to deviate. 

  • Of a projectile, to travel in a curved line 

  • To climb or move upward by winding or turning. 

  • To turn aside or deviate to avoid impact. 

  • To drive in the trajectory of another vehicle to stop it, to cut off. 

noun
  • A sudden movement out of a straight line, for example to avoid a collision. 

  • A deviation from duty or custom. 

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