nick vs quoin

nick

verb
  • To make ragged or uneven, as by cutting nicks or notches in; to deface, to mar. 

  • To make a cut at the side of the face. 

  • To make a nick or notch in; to cut or scratch in a minor way. 

  • To steal. 

  • To arrest. 

  • To make a crosscut or cuts on the underside of (the tail of a horse, in order to make the animal carry it higher). 

noun
  • The point where the wall of the court meets the floor. 

  • One of the single-stranded DNA segments produced during nick translation. 

  • Often in the expressions in bad nick and in good nick: condition, state. 

  • A police station or prison. 

  • A small deflection of the ball off the edge of the bat, often going to the wicket-keeper for a catch. 

quoin

verb
  • To wedge or steady with quoins. 

noun
  • Any of the corner building blocks of a building, usually larger or more ornate than the surrounding blocks. 

  • The keystone of an arch. 

  • A number of apple varieties with a distinctive ribbed appearance, like corners of a coin. 

  • A metal wedge which fits into the space between the type and the edge of a chase, and is tightened to fix the metal type in place. 

  • A wedge of wood or iron put under the breech of heavy guns or the muzzle of siege-mortars to raise them to the proper level. 

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