cadge vs refer

cadge

verb
  • To obtain something by wit or guile; to convince people to do something they might not normally do. 

  • To carry, as a burden. 

  • To intrude or live on another meanly; to beg. 

  • To beg. 

  • To carry hawks and other birds of prey. 

  • To hawk or peddle, as fish, poultry, etc. 

noun
  • A circular frame on which cadgers carry hawks for sale. 

refer

verb
  • To direct the attention of (someone toward something) 

  • To point to either a specific location in computer memory or to a specific object. 

  • To mention (something); to direct attention (to something) 

  • To submit to (another person or group) for consideration; to send or direct elsewhere. 

  • To make reference to; to be about; to relate to; to regard; to allude to. 

  • To place in or under by a mental or rational process; to assign to, as a class, a cause, source, a motive, reason, or ground of explanation. 

  • Required to resit an examination. 

  • To be referential to another element in a sentence. 

noun
  • A blurb on the front page of a newspaper issue or section that refers the reader to the full story inside the issue or section by listing its slug or headline and its page number. 

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