brine vs gargle

brine

verb
  • To prepare and flavor food (especially meat) for cooking by soaking in a salt solution. 

  • To preserve food in a salt solution. 

noun
  • The sea or ocean; the water of the sea. 

  • Salt water; water saturated or strongly impregnated with salt; a salt-and-water solution for pickling. 

gargle

verb
  • to use (a liquid) for purposes of cleaning one's mouth or throat by gargling. 

  • to clean a specific part of the body by gargling (almost always throat or mouth) 

  • to make a sound like the one made while gargling 

  • to clean one's mouth by holding water or some other liquid in the back of the mouth and blowing air out from the lungs 

noun
  • lager, drink 

  • a liquid used for gargling 

  • the sound of gargling 

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