knead vs malleate

knead

verb
  • To treat or form as if by kneading; to beat. 

  • To mix thoroughly; form into a homogeneous compound. 

  • To work and press into a mass, usually with the hands; especially, to work, as by repeated pressure with the knuckles, into a well mixed mass, the materials of bread, cake, etc. 

  • Of cats, to make an alternating pressing motion with the two front paws. 

noun
  • The act of kneading something. 

malleate

verb
  • To beat into shape with a hammer. 

adj
  • Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer. 

  • Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered. 

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