beetroot vs ruddle

beetroot

verb
  • To turn a bright red or purple colour. 

noun
  • A normally deep-red-coloured root vegetable usually cooked or pickled before eating; Synonym of beet. 

  • The edible part of the root of a beet plant, raw or prepared. 

ruddle

verb
  • To mark something with red ochre. 

  • To raddle or twist. 

  • To sift together; to mix, as through a sieve. 

noun
  • A form of red ochre sometimes used to mark sheep. 

  • A riddle or sieve. 

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