pounce vs wormhole

pounce

verb
  • To stamp holes in; to perforate. 

  • To eagerly seize an opportunity. 

  • To sprinkle or rub with pounce powder. 

  • To attack suddenly by leaping. 

  • To leap into the air intending to seize someone or something. 

  • To strike or seize with the talons; to pierce, as with the talons. 

noun
  • Charcoal dust, or some other coloured powder for making patterns through perforated designs, used by embroiderers, lacemakers, etc. 

  • A sudden leaping attack. 

  • A type of fine powder, as of sandarac, or cuttlefish bone, sprinkled over wet ink to dry the ink after writing or on rough paper to smooth the writing surface. 

  • A punch or stamp. 

  • Cloth worked in eyelet holes. 

wormhole

verb
  • To make porous or permeable through the formation of small holes or tunnels. 

noun
  • A location in a monitor program containing the address of a routine, allowing the user to substitute different functionality. 

  • A hole burrowed by a worm. 

  • A hypothetical shortcut between two points in spacetime, permitting faster-than-light travel and sometimes time travel. 

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