lick vs throat

lick

verb
  • To lap; to take in with the tongue. 

  • To defeat decisively, particularly in a fight. 

  • To do anything partially. 

  • To lap. 

  • To perform cunnilingus. 

  • To beat with repeated blows. 

  • To stroke with the tongue. 

  • To overcome. 

noun
  • An attempt at something. 

  • A small watercourse or ephemeral stream. It ranks between a rill and a stream. 

  • An instance of earning money fast, usually by illegal means, thus a heist, drug deal etc.; mostly used in phrasal verbs: hit a lick, hit licks 

  • A quick and careless application of anything, as if by a stroke of the tongue. 

  • The act of licking; a stroke of the tongue. 

  • A place where animals lick minerals from the ground. 

  • The amount of some substance obtainable with a single lick. 

  • A small amount; a whit. 

  • A short motif. 

  • A stroke or blow. 

  • A rate of speed. (Always qualified by good, fair, or a similar adjective.) 

  • An act of cunnilingus. 

throat

verb
  • To utter in or with the throat. 

  • to throat threats 

  • To take into the throat. (Compare deepthroat.) 

noun
  • A narrow opening in a vessel. 

  • The front part of the neck. 

  • Station throat. 

  • The inside of a timber knee. 

  • The upper fore corner of a boom-and-gaff sail, or of a staysail. 

  • That end of a gaff which is next to the mast. 

  • The angle where the arm of an anchor is joined to the shank. 

  • The part of a chimney between the gathering, or portion of the funnel which contracts in ascending, and the flue. 

  • The orifice of a tubular organ; the outer end of the tube of a monopetalous corolla; the faux, or fauces. 

  • The gullet or windpipe. 

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