cudgelling vs dusting

cudgelling

noun
  • A beating with a cudgel. 

dusting

noun
  • A beating. 

  • The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore. 

  • A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dust-bathing. 

  • A light snowfall. 

  • A light covering of something. 

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