rotate vs wheel about

rotate

verb
  • To spin, turn, or revolve. 

  • To grow or plant (crops) in a certain order. 

  • To lift the nose during takeoff, just prior to liftoff. 

  • To spin, turn, or revolve something. 

  • To advance through a sequence; to take turns. 

  • To advance something through a sequence; to allocate or deploy in turns. 

  • To replace older materials or to place older materials in front of newer ones so that older ones get used first. 

adj
  • Having the parts spreading out like a wheel; wheel-shaped. 

wheel about

verb
  • To change direction quickly, turn, pivot, whirl about. 

  • To transport someone or something to various locations by pushing a wheeled transporter such as a wheelchair, wheelbarrow or trolley. 

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