rawhide vs scourge

rawhide

noun
  • A whip made from twisted untanned leather. 

  • Untanned hide. 

verb
  • To clear (a pump) of sediment by starting and stopping it repeatedly. 

  • To beat with a rawhide whip. 

scourge

noun
  • A whip, often of leather and often multi-tailed. 

  • A source of persistent trouble such as pestilence that causes pain and suffering or widespread destruction. 

  • A means to inflict such pain or destruction. 

verb
  • To strike with a scourge; to flog. 

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