eatable vs smeddum

eatable

noun
  • Anything edible; food. 

adj
  • Able to be eaten; edible. 

smeddum

noun
  • Fine powder; flour. 

  • A layer of clay or shale between two beds of coal. 

  • Smitham. 

  • Zest, energy; pluck; sagacity; quickness of apprehension; gumption; spirit; mettle. 

  • The powder or finest part of ground malt. 

  • Ore small enough to pass through the wire bottom of a sieve. 

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