handkerchief vs tatter

handkerchief

noun
  • A piece of cloth, usually square and often fine and elegant, carried for wiping the face, eyes, nose or hands. 

  • A piece of cloth shaped like a handkerchief to be worn about the neck; a neckerchief or neckcloth. 

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 handkerchief and tatter occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )