three-decker vs triple-decker

three-decker

noun
  • An old-fashioned pulpit. 

  • Anything with three layers or levels. 

  • A sailing warship that had guns on each of three decks. 

triple-decker

noun
  • A headline that is three lines long. 

  • A bus with three storeys. 

  • A three-storey apartment building. 

  • A sandwich consisting of three levels of filling between four pieces of bread. 

How often have the words three-decker and triple-decker occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )