lick vs shearing

lick

noun
  • An act of cunnilingus. 

  • An attempt at something. 

  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. 

  • An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks 

  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue. 

  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. 

  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground. 

  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. 

  • A small amount; a whit. 

  • A short motif. 

  • A stroke or blow. 

  • A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.) 

verb
  • To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight. 

  • To do anything partially. 

  • To lap; to take in with the tongue. 

  • To lap. 

  • To perform cunnilingus. 

  • To beat with repeated blows. 

  • To stroke with the tongue. 

  • To overcome. 

shearing

noun
  • The act or operation of reaping. 

  • Deformation by forces acting in opposite directions. 

  • The process of making a vertical side cutting in working into a face of coal. 

  • The act or operation of clipping with shears or a shearing machine, as the wool from sheep, or the nap from cloth. 

  • The material cut off in this way. 

  • The process of preparing shear steel; tilting. 

  • The act or operation of dividing with shears. 

adj
  • Tending to cut or tear. 

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