dragnet vs noose

dragnet

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

  • To make heightened efforts to catch a suspect. 

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

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

noose

verb
  • To tie or catch in a noose; to entrap or ensnare. 

noun
  • An adjustable loop of rope, such as the one placed around the neck in hangings, or the one at the end of a lasso. 

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