devise vs throwback

devise

noun
  • The act of leaving real property in a will. 

  • Design, devising. 

  • Such a will, or a clause in such a will. 

  • The real property left in such a will. 

verb
  • To use one’s intellect to plan or design (something). 

  • To leave (property) in a will. 

throwback

noun
  • A practice to avoid untaxed nowhere income by instead taxing such income in the originating state for a given transaction. 

  • A reversion to an earlier stage of development. 

  • An atavism. 

  • An organism that has characteristics of a more primitive form. 

  • Coordinate terms: nowhere income, throwout 

  • A person considered to be primitive, uncivilized and mentally deficient. 

  • A person or thing that evokes memories. 

  • A person similar to an ancestor, or something new similar to what already existed. 

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