scuffle vs stepper

scuffle

noun
  • A Dutch hoe, manipulated by both pushing and pulling. 

  • A rough, disorderly fight or struggle at close quarters. 

  • Poverty; struggle. 

verb
  • To fight or struggle confusedly at close quarters. 

  • To walk with a shuffling gait. 

  • To make a living with difficulty, getting by on a low income, to struggle financially. 

stepper

noun
  • A kind of electric motor (a stepper motor) that advances in steps rather than smoothly. 

  • A device used in the manufacture of microcircuits to apply a photolithographic image repeatedly, at regular intervals (by imaging, moving a step and repeating). 

  • A person or animal that steps, especially energetically or high. 

  • A dancer. 

  • A type of exercise machine. 

  • Anything that moves or advances in steps. 

  • A shoe, especially a fashionable or attractive shoe, or one used for step-dancing. 

  • A dancer in a step show. 

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