bread vs smeddum

bread

noun
  • A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals. 

  • Money. 

  • Food; sustenance; support of life, in general. 

  • A piece of embroidery; a braid. 

  • Any variety of bread. 

verb
  • To coat with breadcrumbs. 

  • To make broad; spread. 

  • To form in meshes; net. 

smeddum

noun
  • Fine powder; flour. 

  • A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal. 

  • Smitham. 

  • Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle. 

  • The powder or finest part of ground malt. 

  • Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve. 

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