nosehole vs nostril

nosehole

noun
  • A nostril. 

  • A small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. 

nostril

noun
  • Either of the two orifices located on the nose (or on the beak of a bird); used as a passage for air and other gases to travel the nasal passages. 

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