junk vs lifeline

junk

noun
  • A Chinese sailing vessel. 

  • The genitalia, especially of a male. 

  • Discarded or waste material; rubbish, trash, garbage. 

  • A collection of miscellaneous items of little value. 

  • Any narcotic drug, especially heroin. 

  • Salt beef. 

  • Pieces of old cable or cordage, used for making gaskets, mats, swabs, etc., and when picked to pieces, forming oakum for filling the seams of ships. 

  • Nonsense; gibberish. 

  • Material or resources of a kind lacking commercial value. 

verb
  • To throw away. 

  • To find something for very little money (meaning derived from the term junkshop) 

lifeline

noun
  • On the deck of a boat, a line to which one can attach oneself to stay aboard on rough seas. 

  • A particular crease in the palm. 

  • A line from the diver to a tender at the surface control point. 

  • A line to which a drowning or falling victim may cling. 

  • A means or route for transporting indispensable supplies. 

  • System or structure of vital importance to a community. 

  • A source of salvation in a crisis. 

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