graze vs picnic

graze

noun
  • The act of animals feeding from pasture. 

  • The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. 

  • A light abrasion; a slight scratch. 

verb
  • To cause a slight wound to; to scratch. 

  • To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. 

  • To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger. 

  • To yield grass for grazing. 

  • To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) 

  • To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing. 

  • To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. 

  • To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout. 

picnic

noun
  • A cut of pork from the shoulder area (above the front leg) of a pig. 

  • An easy or pleasant task. 

  • An informal social gathering, usually in a natural outdoor setting, to which the participants bring their own food and drink. 

  • The meal eaten at such a gathering. 

verb
  • To take part in a picnic. 

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