stoke vs wrest

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. 

wrest

noun
  • The act of wresting; a wrench or twist; distortion. 

  • A key to tune a stringed instrument. 

  • A partition in a water wheel by which the form of the buckets is determined. 

verb
  • To tune with a wrest, or key. 

  • To seize. 

  • To distort, to pervert, to twist. 

  • To obtain by pulling or violent force. 

  • To pull or twist violently. 

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