piker vs tramp

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.) 

tramp

noun
  • A homeless person; a vagabond. 

  • see Wikipedia:tramp steamer 

  • A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area. 

  • A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. 

  • Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted 

  • A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe. 

  • Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. 

verb
  • To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 

  • To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. 

  • To travel or wander through. 

  • To hitchhike. 

  • To walk with heavy footsteps. 

  • To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain). 

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