dag vs hitch

dag

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 

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. 

hitch

verb
  • To become entangled or caught; to be linked or yoked; to unite; to cling. 

  • To strike the legs together in going, as horses; to interfere. 

  • To attach, tie or fasten. 

  • To pull with a jerk. 

  • To marry oneself to; especially to get hitched. 

  • To move interruptedly or with halts, jerks, or steps; said of something obstructed or impeded. 

noun
  • A fastener or connection point, as for a trailer. 

  • A large Californian minnow, Lavinia exilicauda. 

  • A problem, delay or source of difficulty. 

  • A sudden pull. 

  • A period of time spent in the military. 

  • Any of various knots used to attach a rope to an object other than another rope. 

  • A hidden or unfavorable condition or element. 

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