nine vs skittle

nine

noun
  • A nine-millimeter semi-automatic pistol. 

  • A playing card with nine pips. 

  • A baseball club, team, or lineup (composed of nine players). 

  • The digit or figure 9. 

  • A statistical unit of proportion (of reliability, purity, etc.). 

num
  • Describing a group or set with nine elements. 

  • A numerical value equal to 9; the number following eight and preceding ten. 

skittle

noun
  • One of the wooden targets used in skittles. 

verb
  • To knock down (skittles). 

  • To defeat easily. 

  • (sometimes with out) To rapidly bowl out a succession of batsmen. 

  • To play skittles. 

  • (with down) To squander one's money. 

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