careen vs pluck

careen

verb
  • To lurch or sway violently from side to side. 

  • To tilt on one side. 

  • To tilt or lean while in motion. 

  • To career, to move rapidly straight ahead, to rush carelessly. 

  • To move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way. 

  • To heave a ship down on one side so as to expose the other, in order to clean it of barnacles and weed, or to repair it below the water line. 

noun
  • The position of a ship laid on one side. 

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To take or remove (someone) quickly from a particular place or situation. 

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • To gently play a single string, e.g. on a guitar, violin etc. 

  • Of a glacier: to transport individual pieces of bedrock by means of gradual erosion through freezing and thawing. 

noun
  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

  • The lungs, heart with trachea and often oesophagus removed from slaughtered animals. 

  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Cheap wine. 

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