pecker vs stoke

pecker

noun
  • Someone who or something that pecks, striking or piercing in the manner of a bird's beak or bill 

  • Any machine or machine part moving in a pecking fashion 

  • A kind of V-shaped telegraphic relay. 

  • A bird, particularly a member of the group including the woodpeckers, flowerpeckers, oxpeckers, and berrypeckers. 

  • Any tool used in a pecking fashion, particularly kinds of hoes or pickaxes. 

  • A penis; cock, dick. 

  • Spirits, nerve, courage. 

  • A nose. 

  • A bird's beak or bill. 

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 pecker and stoke occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )