lacing vs slaughter

lacing

noun
  • A beating as punishment; a hiding. 

  • Lagging, or cross-pieces placed to prevent ore from falling into a passage. 

  • The cords by which the boards of a book are fastened to the back. 

  • The knee of the head, or lace-piece, a piece of compass or knee timber secured to the back of the figurehead. 

  • The tied or threaded laces that form a netlike pattern. 

  • That with which something is laced. 

slaughter

noun
  • A rout or decisive defeat. 

  • A mass destruction of non-living things. 

  • The killing of animals, generally for food. 

  • A massacre; the killing of a large number of people. 

  • A group of iguanas. 

verb
  • To butcher animals, generally for food. 

  • To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner. 

  • To massacre people in large numbers. 

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