threap vs tug of war

threap

noun
  • An altercation, quarrel, argument. 

  • A superstition or freet. 

  • Stubborn insistence. 

  • An accusation or serious charge. 

verb
  • To denounce. 

  • To cozen or cheat. 

  • To maintain obstinately against denial or contradiction; to insist (on). 

  • To cry out; complain; contend. 

  • To contradict. 

  • To argue; bicker; scold; rebuke 

  • To affirm; to express with conviction. 

tug of war

noun
  • A dispute between two parties, particularly an entrenched, back-and-forth dispute. 

  • A game or competition in which two teams pull or tug on opposite ends of a rope trying to force the other team over the line which initially marked the middle between the two teams. 

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