hand-me-down vs tattered

hand-me-down

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

adj
  • Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user. 

noun
  • A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one. 

  • An item that is passed along for someone else to use. 

tattered

adj
  • Dressed in tatters or rags; ragged. 

  • Rent in tatters, torn, hanging in rags; ragged. 

How often have the words hand-me-down and tattered occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )