shot put vs slog

shot put

noun
  • A ball used to perform the action of shot put. 

  • An athletics event where a competitor must hurl a heavy metal orb ("shot") as far as possible. Because of the weight of the ball this is done with a pushing ("putting") motion rather than a throwing motion. 

  • A trial of shot put. 

slog

noun
  • An aggressive shot played with little skill. 

  • A long, tedious walk, or session of work. 

verb
  • To strike something with a heavy blow, especially a ball with a bat. 

  • To work slowly and deliberately at a tedious task. 

  • To walk slowly, encountering resistance. 

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