hand-me-down vs second hand

hand-me-down

noun
  • An item that is passed along for someone else to use. 

  • A piece of clothing or other item which has been outgrown by an older sibling and passed down to a younger one. 

adj
  • Used or second-hand, passed along by its prior user. 

verb
  • To pass along to someone else. 

second hand

noun
  • On a clock or watch, the hand or pointer that shows the number of seconds that have passed. 

  • An intermediate person or means; intermediary. 

How often have the words hand-me-down and second hand occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )