dag vs hobble

dag

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

  • To be misty; to drizzle. 

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

  • To skewer food, for roasting over a fire 

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

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. 

hobble

verb
  • To fetter by tying the legs; to restrict (a horse) with hobbles. 

  • To move roughly or irregularly. 

  • To perplex; to embarrass. 

  • To walk lame, or unevenly. 

noun
  • One of the short straps tied between the legs of unfenced horses, allowing them to wander short distances but preventing them from running off. 

  • An unsteady, off-balance step. 

  • An odd job; a piece of casual work. 

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