blinker vs mayday

blinker

noun
  • Anything that blinks, such as the turn signal of an automobile. 

  • Eye shields attached to a hood for horses, to prevent them from seeing backwards and partially sideways. 

  • A black eye. 

  • In Conway's Game of Life, an arrangement of three cells in a row that switches between horizontal and vertical orientations in each generation. 

  • The eyelid. 

  • Whatever obstructs sight or discernment. 

verb
  • To put blinkers on. 

mayday

noun
  • An international distress signal used by shipping and aircraft. 

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