gripe vs rescue

gripe

verb
  • To suffer griping pains. 

  • To tend to come up into the wind, as a ship which, when sailing close-hauled, requires constant labour at the helm. 

  • To annoy or bother. 

  • To complain; to whine. 

noun
  • A wire rope, often used on davits and other life raft launching systems. 

  • A complaint, often a petty or trivial one. 

  • The compass or sharpness of a ship's stern under the water, having a tendency to make her keep a good wind. 

  • The piece of timber that terminates the keel at the fore end; the forefoot. 

  • Pinching and spasmodic pain in the intestines. 

  • An assemblage of ropes, dead-eyes, and hocks, fastened to ringbolts in the deck, to secure the boats when hoisted. 

rescue

verb
  • To achieve something positive under difficult conditions. 

  • To recover forcibly. 

  • To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint. 

  • To save from any violence, danger or evil. 

  • To deliver by arms, notably from a siege. 

  • To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin. 

noun
  • A rescuee. 

  • A liberation, freeing. 

  • An act or episode of rescuing, saving. 

  • The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril 

  • A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded 

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