ditch vs rootle

ditch

verb
  • To dig ditches around. 

  • To dig ditches. 

  • To throw into a ditch. 

  • To discard or abandon. 

  • To deliberately not attend classes; to play hookey. 

  • To deliberately crash-land an airplane on water. 

noun
  • A trench; a long, shallow indentation, as for irrigation or drainage. 

  • A raised bank of earth and the hedgerow on top. 

rootle

verb
  • to dig into the ground, with the snout. 

  • to search for something from a drawer, closet, etc.; to dig out. 

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