gusset vs stave

gusset

verb
  • To make with a gusset; to sew a gusset into. 

noun
  • A large flat metal piece wider than the valley to help prevent build-up at the base of the valley, either from debris or ice dam formations. 

  • A kind of bracket, or angular piece of iron, fastened in the angles of a structure to give strength or stiffness; especially, the part joining the barrel and the fire box of a locomotive boiler. 

  • A gousset, a piece of mail providing protection where armor plates meet. 

  • A small piece of cloth inserted in a garment, for the purpose of strengthening some part or giving it a tapering enlargement cf. godet. 

  • An abatement or mark of dishonor in a coat of arms, resembling a gusset. 

stave

verb
  • To fit or furnish with staves or rundles. 

  • To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron. 

  • To suffer, or cause to be lost by breaking the cask. 

  • To push, or keep off, as with a staff. 

  • To delay by force or craft; to drive away. 

  • To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. 

noun
  • The initial consonant, consonant cluster, or vowel of a word which rhymes with another word with the same consonant or vowel in stave-rhyme. 

  • A sign, symbol or sigil, including rune or rune-like characters, used in Icelandic magic. 

  • One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel 

  • The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff. 

  • One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, barrel, pail, etc. 

  • A staff or walking stick. 

  • A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff. 

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