halt vs whirl

halt

verb
  • To limp; move with a limping gait. 

  • To be lame, faulty, or defective, as in connection with ideas, or in measure, or in versification. 

  • To bring to a stop. 

  • To stand in doubt whether to proceed, or what to do; hesitate; be uncertain; linger; delay; mammer. 

  • To falter. 

  • To stop marching. 

  • To stop either temporarily or permanently. 

  • To cause to discontinue. 

  • To waver. 

noun
  • A minor railway station (usually unstaffed) in the United Kingdom. 

  • A cessation, either temporary or permanent. 

whirl

verb
  • To remove or carry quickly with, or as with, a revolving motion; to snatch. 

  • To make something or someone whirl. 

  • To have a sensation of spinning or reeling. 

  • To rotate, revolve, spin or turn rapidly. 

noun
  • (usually following “give”) A brief experiment or trial. 

  • Something that whirls. 

  • A rapid series of events. 

  • Dizziness or giddiness. 

  • An act of whirling. 

  • A confused tumult. 

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