bid vs dragnet

bid

verb
  • To make an attempt. 

  • To offer as a price. 

  • To make an offer to pay or accept a certain price. 

  • To invite; to summon. 

  • To utter a greeting or salutation. 

  • To issue a command; to tell. 

  • To announce (one's goal), before starting play. 

  • To take a particular route regularly. 

noun
  • A (failed) attempt to receive or intercept a pass. 

  • An offer at an auction, or to carry out a piece of work. 

  • A particular route that a driver regularly takes from their domicile. 

  • A prison sentence. 

  • An attempt, effort, or pursuit (of a goal). 

dragnet

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

  • To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. 

noun
  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. 

  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. 

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