rummage vs sweepings

rummage

noun
  • The act of stowing cargo; the pulling and moving about of packages incident to close stowage. 

  • A place or room for the stowage of cargo in a ship. 

  • A disorganized collection of miscellaneous objects; a jumble. 

  • A thorough search, usually resulting in disorder. 

verb
  • To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside. 

  • To search a vessel for smuggled goods. 

  • To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods. 

  • To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged. 

sweepings

noun
  • Material that is swept up. 

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