pricking vs tapping

pricking

noun
  • The act of piercing or puncturing with a sharp point. 

  • The driving of a nail into a horse's foot so as to produce lameness. 

  • A sensation that pricks. 

  • A nicking. 

  • The mark or trace left by a hare's foot; a prick. 

  • The act of tracing a hare by its footmarks. 

tapping

noun
  • An act of making a light hit or strike against something. 

  • A guitar technique in which the strings are tapped against the fingerboard 

  • A connection made to some point between the end terminals of a transformer coil or other component. 

  • The process by which a resource is tapped or exploited. 

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