carline vs old maid

carline

noun
  • A woman; a hag or witch. 

  • A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location. 

  • Carline thistle. 

  • A piece of squared timber fitted fore-and-aft between the deck beams of a wooden ship to provide support for the deck planking. 

old maid

noun
  • An old woman who has never married; a spinster. 

  • An unpopped kernel in a batch of popped popcorn kernels. 

  • The Madagascar periwinkle. 

  • The unmatchable card in that game. 

  • A card game in which cards must be paired and one undesirable card is designated "old maid". 

  • The common zinnia. 

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