fife vs fluting

fife

noun
  • A small shrill pipe, resembling the piccolo flute, used chiefly to accompany the drum in military music 

verb
  • To play this instrument. 

num
  • Used instead of five in radio communications to avoid confusion with fire. 

fluting

noun
  • A flute-like sound. 

  • The act of making such grooves. 

  • A decoration consisting of parallel, normally vertical, flutes (grooves) incised into the surface. 

  • A fluted pleat; a small, rounded or pressed pleat used as trimming on a garment. 

adj
  • Making a sound like a flute. 

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