gimmick vs stoke

gimmick

noun
  • A trick or device used to attain some end. 

  • A night out with one's friends. 

  • A gimmick capacitor. 

  • A clever ploy or strategy. 

verb
  • To rig or set up with a trick or device. 

stoke

noun
  • An act of poking, piercing, thrusting 

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

  • To poke, pierce, thrust. 

  • To encourage a behavior or emotion. 

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

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