clout vs snip

clout

noun
  • 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. 

  • A blow with the hand. 

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. 

snip

noun
  • A small amount of something; a pinch. 

  • A vasectomy. 

  • The act of snipping; cutting a small amount off of something. 

  • Something acquired for a low price; a bargain. 

  • A single cut with scissors, clippers, or similar tool. 

  • A piece cut out by snipping. 

  • A white marking on a horse's muzzle, between the nostrils. 

  • A small or weak person, especially a young one. 

  • An act or sound of snipping, the sound produced by scissors. 

verb
  • To break off; to snatch away. 

  • To remove the irrelevant parts of quotations in the reply message. 

  • To reduce the price of a product, to create a snip. 

  • To cut with short sharp actions, as with scissors. 

  • To circumcise. 

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