put vs shearing

put

noun
  • The act of putting; an action; a movement; a thrust; a push. 

  • A right to sell something at a predetermined price. 

  • An old card game. 

verb
  • To convey coal in the mine, as for example from the working to the tramway. 

  • To play a card or a hand in the game called put. 

  • To bring or set into a certain relation, state or condition. 

  • To express something in a certain manner. 

  • To set before one for judgment, acceptance, or rejection; to bring to the attention. 

  • To place something somewhere. 

  • To attach or attribute; to assign. 

  • To exercise a put option. 

  • To throw a heavy iron ball, as a sport. (See shot put. Do not confuse with putt.) 

  • To steer; to direct one's course; to go. 

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 put and shearing occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )