boring vs quarrying

boring

noun
  • Fragment thrown up when something is bored or drilled. 

  • A pit or hole which has been bored. 

adj
  • Capable of penetrating; piercing. 

  • Used, designed to be used, or able to drill holes. 

  • Suffering from boredom; mildly annoyed and restless through having nothing to do. 

  • Causing boredom or tiredness; making you to feel tired and impatient. 

quarrying

noun
  • A small piece of stone chipped off any stone found in a quarry. 

  • The extraction of material from a quarry. 

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