ride vs winter rat

ride

noun
  • A vehicle. 

  • A lift given to someone in another person's vehicle. 

  • A person (or sometimes a thing or a place) that is visually attractive. 

  • An amusement ridden at a fair or amusement park. 

  • An instance of riding. 

  • An act of sexual intercourse 

  • In jazz, a steady rhythmical style. 

  • A wild, bewildering experience of some duration. 

  • A road or avenue cut in a wood, for riding; a bridleway or other wide country path. 

verb
  • To nag or criticize; to annoy (someone). 

  • To overlap (each other); said of bones or fractured fragments. 

  • To be transported in a vehicle; to travel as a passenger. 

  • To play defense on the defensemen or midfielders, as an attackman. 

  • To rely, depend (on). 

  • Of a ship: to sail, to float on the water. 

  • In jazz, to play in a steady rhythmical style. 

  • To transport oneself by sitting on and directing a horse, later also a bicycle etc. 

  • To manage insolently at will; to domineer over. 

  • To monitor (some component of an audiovisual signal) in order to keep it within acceptable bounds. 

  • To convey, as by riding; to make or do by riding. 

  • To transport (someone) in a vehicle. 

  • To support a rider, as a horse; to move under the saddle. 

  • Of clothing: to gradually move (up) and crease; to ruckle. 

  • To traverse by riding. 

  • To be carried or supported by something lightly and quickly; to travel in such a way, as though on horseback. 

  • To mount (someone) to have sex with them; to have sexual intercourse with. 

  • Of clothing: to rest (in a given way on a part of the body). 

winter rat

noun
  • An old, unattractive automobile, purchased for little money, to be driven during brutal Great Lakes winters while the owner's "good" car remains garaged and protected from corrosive road salt for the season. 

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