graze vs ricochet

graze

noun
  • A light abrasion; a slight scratch. 

  • The act of grazing; a scratching or injuring lightly on passing. 

  • The act of animals feeding from pasture. 

verb
  • To cause a slight wound to; to scratch. 

  • To feed or supply (cattle, sheep, etc.) with grass; to furnish pasture for. 

  • To eat small amounts of food periodically throughout the day, rather than at fixed mealtimes, often not in response to hunger. 

  • To yield grass for grazing. 

  • To feed on; to eat (growing herbage); to eat grass from (a pasture) 

  • To rub or touch lightly the surface of (a thing) in passing. 

  • To tend (cattle, etc.) while grazing. 

  • To shoplift by consuming food or drink items before reaching the checkout. 

ricochet

noun
  • An instance of ricocheting; a glancing rebound. 

  • A method of firing a projectile so that it skips along a surface. 

verb
  • To operate upon by ricochet firing. 

  • To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction. 

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