meal vs smeddum

meal

noun
  • Coordinate term: flour 

  • Food served or eaten as a repast. 

  • The coarse-ground edible part of various grains often used to feed animals; flour or a coarser blend than flour. 

  • A speck or spot. 

  • A part; a fragment; a portion. 

  • A break taken by a police officer in order to eat. 

  • Food that is prepared and eaten, usually at a specific time, and usually in a comparatively large quantity (as opposed to a snack). 

verb
  • To defile or taint. 

smeddum

noun
  • Fine powder; flour. 

  • A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal. 

  • Smitham. 

  • Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle. 

  • The powder or finest part of ground malt. 

  • Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve. 

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