scythe vs slaughter

scythe

verb
  • To attack or injure as if cutting. 

  • To use a scythe. 

  • To cut with a scythe. 

  • To cut off as with a scythe; to mow. 

noun
  • The tenth Lenormand card. 

  • A scythe-shaped blade attached to ancient war chariots. 

  • An instrument for mowing grass, grain, etc. by hand, composed of a long, curving blade with a sharp concave edge, fastened to a long handle called a snath. 

slaughter

verb
  • To kill someone or something, especially in a particularly brutal manner. 

  • To butcher animals, generally for food. 

  • To massacre people in large numbers. 

noun
  • A rout or decisive defeat. 

  • A mass destruction of non-living things. 

  • The killing of animals, generally for food. 

  • A massacre; the killing of a large number of people. 

  • A group of iguanas. 

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