bludgeon vs broadside

bludgeon

verb
  • To coerce someone, as if with a bludgeon. 

  • To strike or hit with something hard, usually on the head; to club. 

noun
  • A short, heavy club, often of wood, which is thicker or loaded at one end. 

broadside

verb
  • To collide with something side-on. 

adv
  • Sideways; with the side turned to the direction of some object. 

noun
  • The printed lyrics of a folk song or ballad; a broadsheet. 

  • A forceful attack, be it written or spoken. 

  • One side of a ship above the water line; all the guns on one side of a warship; their simultaneous firing. 

  • A large sheet of paper, printed on one side and folded. 

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