cup-and-ball vs lifter

cup-and-ball

noun
  • A traditional children's toy consisting of a hand-held wooden cup with a ball attached by a string. The player jerks the ball into the air and attempts to catch it in the cup. 

lifter

noun
  • A delivery that bounces well off the pitch. 

  • An ionocraft. 

  • Someone or something that lifts or assists in lifting. 

  • A thief. 

  • A weightlifter. 

  • A spatula. 

  • A filter that operates on a cepstrum. 

How often have the words cup-and-ball and lifter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )