coal vs hurry

coal

verb
  • To supply with coal. 

  • To take on a supply of coal (usually of steam ships). 

  • To burn to charcoal; to char. 

  • To mark or delineate with charcoal. 

  • To be converted to charcoal. 

noun
  • A type of coal, such as bituminous, anthracite, or lignite, and grades and varieties thereof, as a fuel commodity ready to buy and burn. 

  • A glowing or charred piece of coal, wood, or other solid fuel. 

  • A black or brownish black rock formed from prehistoric plant remains, composed largely of carbon and burned as a fuel. 

  • A piece of coal used for burning (this use is less common in American English) 

  • charcoal. 

hurry

verb
  • To put: to convey coal in the mine, e.g. from the working to the tramway. 

  • Often with up, to speed up the rate of doing something. 

  • To cause to be done quickly. 

  • To hasten; to impel to greater speed; to urge on. 

  • To do things quickly. 

  • To impel to precipitate or thoughtless action; to urge to confused or irregular activity. 

noun
  • Rushed action. 

  • Urgency. 

  • an incidence of a defensive player forcing the quarterback to act faster than the quarterback was prepared to, resulting in a failed offensive play. 

  • A tremolando passage for violins, etc., accompanying an exciting situation. 

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