hackney vs jasper

hackney

verb
  • To use as a hackney. 

  • To make uninteresting or trite by frequent use. 

  • To carry in a hackney coach. 

noun
  • A carriage for hire or a cab. 

  • A horse used to ride or drive. 

  • A breed of English horse. 

adj
  • Much used; trite; mean. 

  • Offered for hire. 

jasper

verb
  • To decorate with, or as if with, jasper. 

noun
  • A person, a guy, especially seen as naïve or simple. 

  • Jasperware pottery. 

  • An opaque, impure variety of quartz, of red, yellow, and other dull colors, breaking conchoidally with a smooth surface. 

  • A wasp. 

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