stoke vs swoop

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. 

swoop

noun
  • A sudden act of seizing. 

  • An instance, or the act of suddenly plunging downward. 

  • A quick passage from one note to the next. 

verb
  • To fall on at once and seize; to catch while on the wing. 

  • To fly or glide downwards suddenly; to plunge (in the air) or nosedive. 

  • To pass with pomp; to sweep. 

  • To move swiftly, as if with a sweeping movement, especially to attack something. 

  • To seize; to catch up; to take with a sweep. 

  • To search the ground for discarded cigarette butts that can be made into new cigarettes. 

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