rebound vs starboard

rebound

verb
  • To bound or spring back from a force. 

  • To send back; to reverberate. 

  • To give back an echo. 

  • To jump up or get back up again. 

noun
  • A return to health or well-being; a recovery. 

  • An effort to recover from a setback. 

  • The strike of the ball after it has bounced off a defending player or the crossbar or goalpost. 

  • A romantic partner with whom one begins a relationship (or the relationship one begins) for the sake of getting over a previous, recently ended romantic relationship. 

  • An instance of catching the ball after it has hit the rim or backboard without a basket being scored, generally credited to a particular player. 

  • The recoil of an object bouncing off another. 

  • The period of getting over a recently ended romantic relationship. 

starboard

verb
  • To put to the right, or starboard, side of a vessel. 

noun
  • The righthand side of a ship, boat or aircraft when facing the front, or fore or bow. Used to unambiguously refer to directions according to the sides of the vessel, rather than those of a crew member or object. 

  • One of the two traditional watches aboard a ship standing a watch in two. 

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