sop up vs towel

sop up

verb
  • To absorb, to soak up. 

towel

verb
  • To hit with a towel. 

  • To dry by using a towel. 

  • To block up (a door, etc.) with a towel, to conceal the fumes of a recreational drug. 

noun
  • A cloth used for wiping, especially one used for drying anything wet, such as a person after a bath. 

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