earn vs gaffle

earn

verb
  • To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward. 

  • To achieve by being worthy of. 

  • To receive payment for work. 

  • To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work. 

gaffle

verb
  • To swindle or bully (someone) 

  • To arrest for criminal activity. 

  • To steal 

  • To equip with a gaffle or similar weapon. 

  • To talk without a purpose, usually about inane or pointless topics; to babble. 

  • To grab or seize 

  • To get hold of, to find. 

noun
  • A steel spur attached to a gamecock (sometimes used figuratively). 

  • A portable fork of iron or wood in which the heavy musket formerly in use was rested that it might be accurately aimed and fired. 

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