cater vs ply

cater

verb
  • To provide anything required or desired, often (derogatory) to pander. 

  • To provide with food, especially for a special occasion as a professional service. 

  • To provide 

  • To place, set, move, or cut diagonally or rhomboidally. 

adv
  • Diagonally. 

noun
  • A method of ringing nine bells in four pairs with a ninth tenor bell. 

ply

verb
  • To persist in offering something to, especially for the purpose of inducement or persuasion. 

  • To work at (something) diligently. 

  • To press upon; to urge persistently. 

  • To travel over (a route) regularly. 

  • To bend, to flex; to be bent by something, to give way or yield (to a force, etc.). 

  • To wield or use (a tool, a weapon, etc.) steadily or vigorously. 

noun
  • In two-player sequential games, a "half-turn" or a move made by one of the players. 

  • A layer of material. 

  • A bent; a direction. 

  • A strand that, twisted together with other strands, makes up rope or yarn. 

  • A condition, a state. 

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