escape vs tackle

escape

verb
  • To avoid (any unpleasant person or thing); to elude, get away from. 

  • To cause (a single character, or all such characters in a string) to be interpreted literally, instead of with any special meaning it would usually have in the same context, often by prefixing with another character. 

  • To elude the observation or notice of; to not be seen or remembered by. 

  • To halt a program or command by pressing a key (such as the "Esc" key) or combination of keys. 

  • To get free; to free oneself. 

  • To avoid capture; to get away with something, avoid punishment. 

noun
  • Leakage or outflow, as of steam or a liquid, or an electric current through defective insulation. 

  • escape key 

  • A holiday, viewed as time away from the vicissitudes of life. 

  • A defective product that is allowed to leave a manufacturing facility. 

  • A successful shot from a snooker position. 

  • The act of leaving a dangerous or unpleasant situation. 

  • The text character represented by 27 (decimal) or 1B (hexadecimal). 

  • Something that has escaped; an escapee. 

  • An apophyge. 

tackle

verb
  • To "hit on" or pursue a person that one is interested in. 

  • To face or deal with, attempting to overcome or fight down. 

  • To bring a ball carrier to the ground. 

  • To attempt to take away a ball. 

  • To force a person to the ground with the weight of one's own body, usually by jumping on top or slamming one's weight into them. 

noun
  • Any instance in which one person intercepts another and forces them to the ground. 

  • A device for grasping an object and an attached means of moving it, as a rope and hook. 

  • A block and tackle. 

  • A man's genitalia. 

  • Equipment, gear, gadgetry. 

  • A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football. 

  • Equipment (rod, reel, line, lure, etc.) used when angling. 

  • An offensive line position between a guard and an end: offensive tackle; a person playing that position. 

  • A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground. 

  • Clothing. 

  • A defensive position between two defensive ends: defensive tackle; a person playing that position. 

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