busk vs commute

busk

verb
  • To tack, cruise about. 

  • To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport. 

noun
  • A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it. 

  • A corset. 

commute

verb
  • To journey, to make a journey 

  • To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa. 

  • To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense. 

  • Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result. 

  • To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen 

  • To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part. 

  • To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash 

  • To regularly travel from one place to another using public transport. 

noun
  • A regular journey between two places, typically home and work. 

  • The route, time or distance of that journey. 

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