curette vs trowel

curette

noun
  • A hand-held surgical instrument, often with a scoop or hook at its tip, used for cleaning or debriding biological tissue. 

verb
  • To scrape with a curette. 

trowel

noun
  • A tool used for smoothing a mold. 

  • A gardener’s tool, shaped like a scoop, used in taking up plants, stirring soil etc. 

  • A mason’s tool, used in spreading and dressing mortar, and breaking bricks to shape them. 

verb
  • To apply (a substance) with a trowel. 

  • To pass over with a trowel. 

  • To apply something heavily or unsubtly. 

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