holm vs slough

holm

noun
  • Rich flat land near a river, prone to being completely flooded; a river-meadow; bottomland. 

  • Any small island, but especially one near a larger island or the mainland, sometimes with holly bushes; an islet. Often the word is used in Norse-influenced place-names. See also holme. 

  • A common evergreen oak of Europe, Quercus ilex; the holm oak. 

  • Small island, islet. 

  • An island in a lake, river or estuary; an eyot. 

slough

noun
  • A type of swamp or shallow lake system, typically formed as or by the backwater of a larger waterway, similar to a bayou with trees. 

  • A small pond, often alkaline, many but not all formed by glacial potholes. 

  • Dead skin on a sore or ulcer. 

  • A muddy or marshy area. 

  • A state of depression. 

  • The skin shed by a snake or other reptile. 

  • A secondary channel of a river delta, usually flushed by the tide. 

verb
  • To shed (skin). 

  • To slide off (like a layer of skin). 

  • To discard. 

  • To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. 

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