dosser vs skell

dosser

noun
  • A homeless and jobless person. 

  • Someone who dosses, someone known for avoiding work. 

  • A hanging tapestry; a dorsal. 

  • A pannier or basket. 

  • One who lodges in a doss-house. 

skell

noun
  • a homeless person, especially one who sleeps in the New York subway. 

  • A male suspicious person or crime suspect, especially a street person such as a drug dealer, pimp or panhandler. 

verb
  • To fall off or fall over. 

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