cuffing vs hitting

cuffing

noun
  • The act by which somebody is cuffed or struck. 

  • The act or process of placing handcuffs on a person. 

hitting

noun
  • A series of hits or blows directed at a person or object. 

  • The batter's hitting improved with practice. 

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