dragnet vs lure

dragnet

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

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

verb
  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

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

lure

noun
  • An artificial bait attached to a fishing line to attract fish. 

  • Something that tempts or attracts, especially one with a promise of reward or pleasure. 

  • A bunch of feathers attached to a line, used in falconry to recall the hawk. 

  • A velvet smoothing brush. 

verb
  • To recall a hawk with a lure. 

  • To attract by temptation, appeal, or guile. 

  • To attract fish with a lure. 

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