piker vs swagman

piker

noun
  • A tramp; a vagrant. 

  • One who bets or gambles only with small amounts of money. 

  • A soldier armed with a pike, a pikeman. 

  • One who refuses to go out with friends, or leaves a party early; a spoilsport or "chicken". 

  • An amateur. 

  • A stingy person; a cheapskate. 

  • One who pikes (quits or backs out of a promise). 

  • A bullock living in the wild. (Also used attributively.) 

swagman

noun
  • A man who travels around with a swag (“bundle of personal items”); specifically, an itinerant person, often seeking work in exchange for food and lodging. 

  • A middleman who buys and sells stolen goods; a fence. 

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