beetling vs skirr

beetling

noun
  • The process by which fabrics, etc. are beetled, or beaten with a mallet. 

adj
  • Jutting or protruding, especially of a person's brows. 

skirr

noun
  • A tern. 

verb
  • to pass over quickly, skim 

  • To make a whirring sound. 

  • To leave hastily; to flee, especially with a whirring sound 

  • To search about in, scour 

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