hair vs pluck

hair

verb
  • To string the bow for a violin. 

  • To remove the hair from. 

  • To grow hair (where there was a bald spot). 

  • To cause to have or bear hair; to provide with hair 

noun
  • A cellular outgrowth of the epidermis, consisting of one or of several cells, whether pointed, hooked, knobbed, or stellated. 

  • A locking spring or other safety device in the lock of a rifle, etc., capable of being released by a slight pressure on a hair-trigger. 

  • A slender outgrowth from the chitinous cuticle of insects, spiders, crustaceans, and other invertebrates. Such hairs are totally unlike those of vertebrates in structure, composition, and mode of growth. 

  • The collection or mass of such growths growing from the skin of humans and animals, and forming a covering for a part of the head or for any part or the whole body. 

  • Any slender, flexible outgrowth, filament, or fiber growing or projecting from the surface of an object or organism. 

  • A pigmented filament of keratin which grows from a follicle on the skin of humans and other mammals. 

  • Any very small distance, or degree; a hairbreadth. 

  • Complexity; difficulty; the quality of being hairy. 

pluck

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

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

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

  • To remove feathers from a bird. 

  • To play a string instrument pizzicato. 

  • 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 hair and pluck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )