dole vs throwback

dole

noun
  • Dolus. 

  • Money or other goods given as charity. 

  • A boundary; a landmark. 

  • Payment by the state to the unemployed; unemployment benefits. 

  • Distribution; dealing; apportionment. 

  • A void space left in tillage. 

verb
  • To distribute in small amounts; to share out small portions of a meager resource. 

throwback

noun
  • An atavism. 

  • A reversion to an earlier stage of development. 

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

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

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