fencing vs flannel

fencing

noun
  • Material used to make fences, fences used as barriers or an enclosure. 

  • Receiving and buying of stolen goods. 

  • The art or sport of duelling with swords, especially with the 17th- to 18th-century European dueling swords and the practice weapons descended from them (sport fencing). 

flannel

noun
  • A soft cloth material originally woven from wool, today often combined with cotton or synthetic fibers. 

  • A washcloth. 

  • Soothing, plausible untruth or half-truth; claptrap. 

  • A flannel shirt. 

adj
  • Made of flannel. 

verb
  • To flatter; to suck up to. 

  • To wrap in flannel. 

  • To waffle or prevaricate. 

  • To rub with a flannel. 

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