drub vs trephine

drub

verb
  • To beat (someone or something) with a stick. 

  • To defeat someone soundly; to annihilate or crush. 

  • To forcefully teach something. 

  • To criticize harshly; to excoriate. 

noun
  • Carbonaceous shale; small coal; slate, dross, or rubbish in coal. 

trephine

verb
  • To perforate with a trephine. 

  • To use a trephine during surgery. 

noun
  • A surgical instrument with a cylindrical blade used to remove a circular section of tissue, f.e. bone or cornea; a trepan. 

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