clout vs paw

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. 

paw

noun
  • A hand. 

  • Father; pa. 

  • The soft foot of a mammal or other animal, generally a quadruped, that has claws or nails; comparable to a human hand or foot. 

verb
  • To draw the forefoot along the ground; to beat or scrape with the forefoot. 

  • To go through something (such as a garbage can) with paws. 

  • To touch someone in a sexual way. 

  • To clumsily dig through something. 

  • To gently push on something with a paw. 

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