crosscut vs prune

crosscut

verb
  • To cut (wood, lumber) across the grain. 

  • To cut across something. 

  • To cut repeatedly between two concurrent scenes. 

noun
  • A crosswise cut. 

  • A shortcut. 

  • A crosscut saw. 

  • A level driven across the course of a vein, or across the main workings, as from one gangway to another. 

  • An instance of filmic crosscutting. 

prune

verb
  • To remove excess material from a tree or shrub; to trim, especially to make more healthy or productive. 

  • To cut down or shorten (by the removal of unnecessary material). 

  • To remove unnecessary branches from a tree data structure. 

  • To become wrinkled like a dried plum, as the fingers and toes do when kept submerged in water. 

noun
  • The dried, wrinkled fruit of certain species of plum. 

  • Something wrinkly like a prune. 

  • An old woman, especially a wrinkly one. 

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