cleft vs tatter

cleft

noun
  • A piece made by splitting. 

  • An opening, fissure, or V-shaped indentation made by or as if by splitting. 

  • A disease of horses; a crack on the band of the pastern. 

adj
  • split, divided, or partially divided into two. 

verb
  • To syntactically separate a prominent constituent from the rest of the clause that concerns it, such as threat in "The threat which I saw but which he didn't see, was his downfall." 

tatter

noun
  • A shred of torn cloth; an individual item of torn and ragged clothing. 

  • A person engaged in tatting. 

verb
  • To fall into tatters. 

  • To destroy an article of clothing etc. by shredding. 

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