crimp vs dag

crimp

noun
  • The natural curliness of wool fibres. 

  • One who infringes sub-section 1 of the Merchant Shipping Act 1854, applied to a person other than the owner, master, etc., who engages seamen without a license from the Board of Trade. 

  • A small hold with little surface area. 

  • Hair that is shaped so it bends back and forth in many short kinks. 

  • A grip on such a hold. 

  • A fastener or a fastening method that secures parts by bending metal around a joint and squeezing it together, often with a tool that adds indentations to capture the parts. 

  • An agent who procures seamen, soldiers, etc., especially by decoying, entrapping, impressing, or seducing them. 

verb
  • To gash the flesh, e.g. of a raw fish, to make it crisper when cooked. 

  • To press into small ridges or folds, to pleat, to corrugate. 

  • to hold using a crimp 

  • To bend or mold leather into shape. 

  • To fasten by bending metal so that it squeezes around the parts to be fastened. 

  • To style hair into a crimp, to form hair into tight curls, to make it kinky. 

  • To impress (seamen or soldiers); to entrap, to decoy. 

  • To pinch and hold; to seize. 

dag

noun
  • A dangling lock of sheep’s wool matted with dung. 

  • A hanging end or shred, in particular a long pointed strip of cloth at the edge of a piece of clothing, or one of a row of decorative strips of cloth that may ornament a tent, booth or fairground. 

  • A skewer. 

  • A misty shower; dew. 

  • A spit, a sharpened rod used for roasting food over a fire. 

  • The unbranched antler of a young deer. 

  • One who dresses unfashionably or without apparent care about appearance; someone who is not cool; a dweeb or nerd. 

  • A directed acyclic graph; an ordered pair (V,E) such that E is a subset of some partial ordering relation on V. 

intj
  • Expressing shock, awe or surprise; used as a general intensifier. 

verb
  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

  • To shear the hindquarters of a sheep in order to remove dags or prevent their formation. 

  • To cut or slash the edge of a garment into dags 

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

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