gear shift vs stickshift

gear shift

noun
  • That part of a gearbox involved in changing gear, including the lever and the forks attached to it. 

  • The lever or other interface a human uses to shift gears. 

stickshift

noun
  • A gear lever. 

  • A car with a manual transmission. 

  • A manual transmission, controlled by a gear lever. 

  • Cars, collectively, with such a transmission. 

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