feel vs stoke

feel

verb
  • To experience an emotion or other mental state about. 

  • To experience an emotion or other mental state. 

  • To search by sense of touch. 

  • To think, believe, or have an impression concerning. 

  • To be or become aware of. 

  • To find one's way (literally or figuratively) by touching or using cautious movements. 

  • To seem (through touch or otherwise). 

  • To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected. 

  • To understand. 

  • To become aware of through the skin; to use the sense of touch on. 

  • To experience the consequences of. 

  • To receive information by touch or by any neurons other than those responsible for sight, smell, taste, or hearing. 

noun
  • An act of fondling. 

  • A perception experienced mainly or solely through the sense of touch. 

  • A feeling; an emotion. 

  • A vague mental impression. 

  • An intuitive ability. 

  • A vague understanding. 

stoke

verb
  • To encourage a behavior or emotion. 

  • To attend to or supply a furnace with fuel; to act as a stoker or fireman. 

  • To poke, pierce, thrust. 

  • To feed, stir up, especially, a fire or furnace. 

noun
  • An act of poking, piercing, thrusting 

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