tramp vs travel

tramp

verb
  • To travel or wander through. 

  • To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 

  • To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. 

  • To hitchhike. 

  • To walk with heavy footsteps. 

  • To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain). 

noun
  • see Wikipedia:tramp steamer 

  • A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area. 

  • A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. 

  • Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted 

  • A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe. 

  • A homeless person; a vagabond. 

  • Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. 

travel

verb
  • To travel throughout (a place). 

  • To move illegally by walking or running without dribbling the ball. 

  • To pass from one place to another; to move or transmit 

  • To force to journey. 

  • To be on a journey, often for pleasure or business and with luggage; to go from one place to another. 

noun
  • An account of one's travels. 

  • The working motion of a piece of machinery; the length of a mechanical stroke. 

  • The activity or traffic along a route or through a given point. 

  • Distance that a keyboard's key moves vertically when depressed. 

  • The act of traveling; passage from place to place. 

  • A series of journeys. 

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