hazard vs wager

hazard

verb
  • To expose to chance; to take a risk. 

  • To risk (something); to venture, incur, or bring on. 

noun
  • An obstacle or other feature which causes risk or danger; originally in sports, and now applied more generally. 

  • A problem with the instruction pipeline in CPU microarchitectures when the next instruction cannot execute in the following clock cycle, potentially leading to incorrect results. 

  • The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard). 

  • A game of chance played with dice, usually for monetary stakes; popular mainly from 14th c. to 19th c. 

  • Chance. 

  • An obstacle or other feature that presents a risk or danger that justifies the driver in taking action to avoid it. 

  • The side of the court into which the ball is served. 

  • The chance of suffering harm; danger, peril, risk of loss. 

  • A sand or water obstacle on a golf course. 

wager

verb
  • To bet something; to put it up as collateral. 

  • To suppose; to dare say. 

noun
  • Something deposited, laid, or hazarded on the event of a contest or an unsettled question; a bet; a stake; a pledge. 

  • An offer to make oath. 

  • A contract by which two parties or more agree that a certain sum of money, or other thing, shall be paid or delivered to one of them, on the happening or not happening of an uncertain event. 

  • That on which bets are laid; the subject of a bet. 

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