boilerplate vs reed

boilerplate

noun
  • A sheet of copper or steel used in the construction of a boiler. 

  • Syndicated material. 

  • The rating plate or nameplate required to be affixed to a boiler by the Boiler Explosions Act (1882). 

  • Standard text or program code used routinely and added with a text editor or word processor; text of a legal or official nature added to documents or labels. 

  • Hard, icy snow which may be dangerous to ski on. 

  • Formulaic or hackneyed language. 

  • A plate attached to industrial machinery, identifying information such as manufacturer, model number, serial number, and power requirements. 

verb
  • To store (standard text) so that it can easily be retrieved for reuse. 

adj
  • Describing text or other material of a standard or routine nature. 

  • Used to refer to a non-functional spacecraft used to test configuration and procedures. 

reed

noun
  • A tube containing the train of powder for igniting the charge in blasting. 

  • Any of various types of tall stiff perennial grass-like plants growing together in groups near water. 

  • A comb-like part of a beater for beating the weft when weaving. 

  • A piece of whalebone or similar for stiffening the skirt or waist of a woman's dress. 

  • The fourth stomach of a ruminant; rennet. 

  • A musical instrument such as the clarinet or oboe, which produces sound when a musician blows on the reed. 

  • Straw prepared for thatching a roof. 

  • Part of the mouthpiece of certain woodwind instruments, comprising a thin piece of wood or metal which shakes very quickly to produce sound when a musician blows over it. 

  • Reeding. 

  • The hollow stem of these plants. 

verb
  • To mill or mint with reeding. 

  • To thatch. 

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