dunam vs farthing

dunam

noun
  • A modern Turkish unit of surface area equal to a decare (1000 m²), equivalent to the modern Greek stremma. 

  • An Ottoman Turkish unit of surface area nominally equal to 1,600 square (Turkish) paces but actually varied at a provincial and local level according to land quality to accommodate its colloquial sense of the amount of land able to be plowed in a day, roughly equivalent to the Byzantine stremma or English acre. 

  • Various other units in other areas of the former Ottoman Empire, usually equated to the decare but sometimes varying (as in Iraq, where it is 2500 m²). 

farthing

noun
  • Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny; or a coin representing this. 

  • A very small quantity or value; the least possible amount. 

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