cotter vs rute

cotter

noun
  • A pin or wedge inserted through a slot to hold machine parts together. 

  • A peasant who performed labour in exchange for the right to live in a cottage. 

  • A cotter pin. 

verb
  • To fasten with a cotter. 

rute

noun
  • A bundle of thin sticks, typically made of wood, sometimes bond in such a way that binding can be moved so that it varies the tightness of the binding. 

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