hammering vs spang

hammering

noun
  • A period of being beaten or hammered. 

  • A heavy defeat. 

  • A dented appearance on silverware, produced by successive blows of a hammer. 

spang

noun
  • A span. 

  • A bound or spring; a leap. 

verb
  • To set with bright points: star or spangle. 

  • To hitch; fasten. 

  • To cause to spring; set forcibly in motion; throw with violence. 

  • To strike or ricochet with a loud report 

  • To leap; spring. 

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