dragnet vs ruse

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. 

ruse

verb
  • To deceive or trick using a ruse. 

noun
  • An action intended to deceive; a trick. 

  • Cunning, guile, trickery. 

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