maul vs thresh

maul

verb
  • To beat with a maul. 

  • To criticise harshly. 

  • To handle someone or something in a rough way. 

  • To savage; to cause serious physical wounds (usually used of an animal). 

noun
  • A heavy long-handled hammer, used for splitting logs by driving a wedge into them, or in combat. 

  • A situation where the player carrying the ball, who must be on his feet, is held by one or more opponents, and one or more of the ball carrier's team mates bind onto the ball carrier. 

thresh

verb
  • To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub. 

  • To violently toss the limbs about. 

  • To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery. 

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