drudge vs workhorse

drudge

noun
  • Someone who works for (and may be taken advantage of by) someone else. 

  • A person who works in a low servile job. 

verb
  • To labour in (or as in) a low servile job. 

workhorse

noun
  • Anyone or anything that does a lot of work; something or someone who works consistently or regularly. 

  • A horse used primarily for manual labor; a draft horse. 

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