dragnet vs lasso

dragnet

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

  • To drag a net across the bottom of a body of water. 

noun
  • Heightened efforts by law-enforcement personnel to capture suspects. 

  • A net dragged across the bottom of a body of water. 

lasso

verb
  • To catch with a lasso. 

noun
  • An image-editing function allowing the user to capture an irregularly-shaped object by drawing an approximate outline. 

  • A long rope with a sliding loop on one end, generally used in ranching to catch cattle and horses. 

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