quire vs ream

quire

noun
  • One-twentieth of a ream of paper; a collection of twenty-four or twenty-five sheets of paper of the same size and quality, unfolded or having a single fold. 

  • A set of leaves which are stitched together, originally a set of four pieces of paper (eight leaves, sixteen pages). This is most often a single signature (i.e. group of four), but may be several nested signatures. 

  • One quarter of a cruciform church, or the architectural area of a church used by the choir, often near the apse. 

  • A book, poem, or pamphlet. 

verb
  • To sing in concert. 

  • To prepare quires by stitching together leaves of paper. 

ream

noun
  • A bundle, package, or quantity of paper, nowadays usually containing 500 sheets. 

  • Cream; also, the creamlike froth on ale or other liquor; froth or foam in general. 

  • An abstract large amount of something. 

verb
  • To sexually penetrate in a rough and painful way. 

  • To yell at or berate. 

  • To enlarge a hole, especially using a reamer; to bore a hole wider. 

  • To shape or form, especially using a reamer. 

  • To cream; mantle; foam; froth. 

  • To remove (material) by reaming. 

  • To remove burrs and debris from a freshly bored hole. 

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