bearer vs consul

bearer

noun
  • A person employed to carry a palanquin or litter. 

  • Someone who helps carry the coffin or a dead body during a funeral procession. 

  • A waiter in a hotel or restaurant. 

  • A strip of reglet or other furniture to bear off the impression from a blank page. 

  • One who possesses a cheque, bond, or other notes promising payment. 

  • One who, or that which, bears, sustains, or carries. 

  • A person employed or engaged to carry equipment on a safari, expedition, etc. 

  • A tree or plant yielding fruit. 

  • A type or type-high piece of metal interspersed in blank parts to support the plate when it is shaved. 

consul

noun
  • An official residing in major foreign towns to represent and protect the interests of the merchants and citizens of their country. 

  • Any of the three heads of government and state of France between 1799 and 1804. 

  • Either of the two heads of government and state of the Roman Republic or the equivalent nominal post under the Roman and Byzantine Empires. 

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