nurse vs wait on

nurse

verb
  • To care for (someone), especially in sickness; to tend to. 

  • To drink slowly, to make it last. 

  • To breastfeed: to be fed at the breast. 

  • To foster, to nourish. 

  • To manage with care and economy. 

  • To breastfeed: to feed (a baby) at the breast; to suckle. 

  • To treat kindly and with extra care. 

  • To hold closely to one's chest 

  • To strike (billiard balls) gently, so as to keep them in good position during a series of shots. 

noun
  • One who, or that which, brings up, rears, causes to grow, trains, or fosters. 

  • A larva of certain trematodes, which produces cercariae by asexual reproduction. 

  • A person (usually a woman) who takes care of other people’s young. 

  • A shrub or tree that protects a young plant. 

  • A person trained to provide care for the sick. 

  • A lieutenant or first officer who takes command when the captain is unfit for his place. 

  • A nurse shark or dogfish. 

wait on

verb
  • To provide a service to (someone); to act as a servant to (someone); to serve (someone) as a waiter or waitress in a restaurant. 

  • To wait for (a person). 

  • To wait for (a thing, or an event to take place). 

  • To fly above its master, waiting till game is sprung. 

  • To be in store for (someone). 

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