fife vs flageolet

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. 

flageolet

noun
  • A type of small flute of the fipple family. 

  • A type of kidney bean, common in France. 

  • A technique for playing stringed instrument that produces high-pitched overtones. 

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