forbear vs haw

forbear

verb
  • To refrain from proceeding; to pause; to delay. 

  • To control oneself when provoked. 

  • To refuse; to decline; to withsay; to unheed. 

  • To keep away from; to avoid; to abstain from. 

haw

verb
  • To stop, in speaking, with a sound like haw; to speak with interruption and hesitation. 

  • To cause (an animal) to turn left. 

  • To turn towards the driver, typically to the left. 

intj
  • An imitation of laughter, often used to express scorn or disbelief. Often doubled or tripled (haw haw or haw haw haw). 

  • An instruction for a horse or other animal to turn towards the driver, typically left. 

  • An intermission or hesitation of speech, with a sound somewhat like "haw"; the sound so made. 

noun
  • A disease of the nictitating membrane. 

  • A hedge. 

  • The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. 

  • Fruit of the hawthorn. 

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