dangle vs stoke

dangle

noun
  • The action of dangling; a series of complex stick tricks and fakes in order to defeat the defender in style. 

  • An agent of one intelligence agency or group who pretends to be interested in defecting or turning to another intelligence agency or group. 

  • A dangling ornament or decoration. 

verb
  • Of a patient: to be positioned with the legs hanging over the edge of the bed. 

  • To hang or trail something loosely. 

  • To hang loosely with the ability to swing. 

  • To put forth as a possibility. 

  • The action of performing a move or deke with the puck in order to get past a defender or goalie; perhaps because of the resemblance to dangling the puck on a string. 

  • To position (a patient) in this way. 

stoke

noun
  • An act of poking, piercing, thrusting 

verb
  • To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. 

  • To poke, pierce, thrust. 

  • To encourage a behavior or emotion. 

  • To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. 

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