burl vs clot

burl

noun
  • A knot or lump in thread or cloth. 

  • Wood of a mottled veneer, usually cut from such a growth. 

  • A tree growth in which the grain has grown in a deformed manner; a burr knot. 

verb
  • To remove the knots in cloth. 

clot

noun
  • A thrombus, solidified mass of blood. 

  • A solidified mass of any liquid. 

  • A silly person. 

verb
  • To form a clot or mass. 

  • To cause to clot or form into a mass. 

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