dead-end vs scantling

dead-end

adj
  • Going nowhere; blocked. 

verb
  • To come to a dead-end. 

noun
  • A road with no exit. 

  • A position that offers no hope of progress. 

scantling

adj
  • Not plentiful; small; scanty. 

noun
  • A small, upright beam of timber used in construction, especially less than five inches square. 

  • Timber in the form of small beams and pieces. 

  • The set size or dimension of a piece of timber, stone etc., or materials used to build ships or aircraft. 

How often have the words dead-end and scantling occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )