hotfoot vs prod

hotfoot

noun
  • The prank of secretly inserting a match between the sole and upper of a victim's shoe and then lighting it. 

verb
  • To run (a distance). 

adj
  • Moving with haste or zeal. 

adv
  • Hastily; without delay. 

prod

noun
  • A light kind of crossbow; a prodd. 

  • A production; a created work. 

  • A prick or stab with such a pointed instrument. 

  • A poke. 

  • A device (now often electrical) used to goad livestock into moving. 

verb
  • To encourage, to prompt. 

  • To prick with a goad. 

  • To poke, to push, to touch. 

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