inroad vs strafe

inroad

noun
  • An advance into enemy territory, an attempted invasion; an encroachment, an incursion. 

  • Often followed by in, into, or on: initial progress made toward accomplishing a goal or solving a problem. 

strafe

noun
  • An attack of machine-gun or cannon fire from a low-flying aircraft. 

  • A sideways movement without turning. 

verb
  • To attack (ground targets) with automatic gunfire from a low-flying aircraft. 

  • To rake (a target) with rapid or automatic gunfire. 

  • To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters). 

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