beating vs whaling

beating

noun

  • The action by which someone or something is beaten. 

  • A heavy defeat or setback. 

  • The pulsation of the heart. 

whaling

noun

  • A beating. 

  • The practice of spotting whales. 

  • The practice of hunting whales. 

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