dusting vs wiping

dusting

noun
  • A beating. 

  • The act of removing dust from the furniture, as a household chore. 

  • A maintenance or comfort behaviour in which a bird flushes fine dirt through the feathers; dust-bathing. 

  • A light snowfall. 

  • A light covering of something. 

wiping

noun
  • A thrashing. 

  • Material wiped off something. 

  • The act by which something is wiped. 

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