clout vs lick

clout

noun
  • A blow with the hand. 

  • A clout nail. 

  • The center of the butt at which archers shoot; probably once a piece of white cloth or a nail head. 

  • Influence or effectiveness, especially political. 

  • A home run. 

verb
  • To cover with cloth, leather, or other material; to bandage, patch, or mend with a clout. 

  • To stud with nails, as a timber, or a boot sole. 

  • To guard with an iron plate, as an axletree. 

  • To hit, especially with the fist. 

  • To join or patch clumsily. 

lick

noun
  • A stroke or blow. 

  • An attempt at something. 

  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. 

  • An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks 

  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue. 

  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. 

  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground. 

  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. 

  • A small amount; a whit. 

  • A short motif. 

  • A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.) 

  • An act of cunnilingus. 

verb
  • To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight. 

  • To do anything partially. 

  • To lap; to take in with the tongue. 

  • To lap. 

  • To perform cunnilingus. 

  • To beat with repeated blows. 

  • To stroke with the tongue. 

  • To overcome. 

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