cudgelling vs lashing

cudgelling

noun
  • A beating with a cudgel. 

lashing

noun
  • Something used to tie something or lash it to something. 

  • As lashings: lots. 

  • The act of one who, or that which, lashes; castigation; chastisement. 

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