peal vs whoosh

peal

verb
  • To sound with a peal or peals. 

  • To resound; to echo. 

  • To assail with noise. 

  • To utter or sound loudly. 

noun
  • The changes rung on a set of bells; in the strict sense a full peal of at least 5040 changes. 

  • A set of bells tuned to each other according to the diatonic scale. 

  • A loud sound, or a succession of loud sounds, as of bells, thunder, cannon, shouts, laughter, of a multitude, etc. 

  • A small salmon; a grilse; a sewin. 

whoosh

verb
  • To make a breathy sound like a whoosh or extrude with such a sound. 

  • To pass by quickly and more or less close or away. 

  • To cause to pass quickly. 

  • To happen while bypassing someone's detailed awareness, to have someone miss the point. 

  • To kill by gun, to shoot. 

noun
  • A homicide by shooting. 

  • A breathy sound like that of an object passing at high speed. 

  • A gun. 

intj
  • Imitates anything passing by quickly and more or less close. 

  • Indicating that somebody has missed the point (i.e. it went over their head). 

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