mop vs shearing

mop

noun
  • An implement for washing floors or similar, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle. 

  • A wash with a mop; the act of mopping. 

  • A dense head of hair. 

  • A made-up face; a grimace. 

  • A firearm particularly if it has a large magazine (compare broom, but still can be related to MP) 

verb
  • To shoplift. 

  • To rub, scrub, clean or wipe with a mop, or as if with a mop. 

  • To make a wry expression with the mouth. 

shearing

noun
  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 

  • Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions. 

  • The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. 

  • The act or operation of reaping. 

  • The material cut off in this way. 

  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 

  • The act or operation of dividing with shears. 

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

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