malleate vs thresh

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. 

thresh

verb
  • To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub. 

  • To violently toss the limbs about. 

  • To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. 

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