ascend vs berth

ascend

verb
  • To move upward, to fly, to soar. 

  • To slope in an upward direction. 

  • To become higher in pitch. 

  • To succeed. 

  • To trace, search or go backwards temporally (e.g., through records, genealogies, routes, etc.). 

  • To lose one's virginity, especially of a man through unpaid and consensual sexual intercourse with a woman. 

  • To go up. 

  • To rise; to become higher, more noble, etc. 

berth

verb
  • to bring (a ship or vehicle) into its berth/berthing 

  • To use a device to bring a spaceship into its berth/dock 

  • to assign a berth (bunk or position) to 

noun
  • A room in which a number of the officers or ship's company mess and reside. 

  • position on the field of play 

  • Room for maneuvering or safety. (Often used in the phrase a wide berth.) 

  • A job or position, especially on a ship. 

  • Position or seed in a tournament bracket. 

  • A fixed bunk for sleeping (in caravans, trains, etc). 

  • A space for a ship to moor or a vehicle to park. 

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