breadcrumb vs flour

breadcrumb

verb
  • To sprinkle breadcrumbs on to food, normally before cooking. 

  • To add navigational breadcrumbs to (a web page or user interface). 

  • To use clues or enticements to lead someone in the desired direction. 

noun
  • A single link in a chain indicating the hierarchical location of a directory, web page or similar, used as a navigation aid. 

  • One in a series of clues leading to a person or place. 

  • A tiny piece of bread, either one that falls from bread as it is cut or eaten, or one made deliberately by crumbling bread. 

flour

verb
  • To reduce to flour. 

  • To apply flour to something; to cover with flour. 

  • To break up into fine globules of mercury in the amalgamation process. 

noun
  • Powder obtained by grinding or milling cereal grains, especially wheat, or other foodstuffs such as soybeans and potatoes, and used to bake bread, cakes, and pastry. 

  • Powder of other material. 

  • The food made by grinding and bolting cleaned wheat (not durum or red durum) until it meets specified levels of fineness, dryness, and freedom from bran and germ, also containing any of certain enzymes, ascorbic acid, and certain bleaching agents. 

  • Coordinate term: meal 

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