collect vs sow

collect

adv
  • With payment due from the recipient. 

adj
  • To be paid for by the recipient, as a telephone call or a shipment. 

noun
  • The prayer said before the reading of the epistle lesson, especially one found in a prayerbook, as with the Book of Common Prayer. 

verb
  • To get; particularly, get from someone. 

  • To infer; to conclude. 

  • To accumulate (a number of similar or related objects), particularly for a hobby or recreation. 

  • To gather together; amass. 

  • To come together in a group or mass. 

  • To collect payments. 

  • To collide with or crash into (another vehicle or obstacle). 

sow

noun
  • A mass of metal solidified in a mold. 

  • A sowbug. 

  • A female bear, she-bear. 

  • A contemptible, often fat woman. 

  • A female guinea pig. 

  • A channel that conducts molten metal to molds. 

  • A kind of covered shed, formerly used by besiegers in filling up and passing the ditch of a besieged place, sapping and mining the wall, etc. 

  • A female pig. 

verb
  • To scatter over; to besprinkle. 

  • To scatter, disperse, or plant (seeds). 

  • To spread abroad; to propagate. 

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