handgrip vs pluck

handgrip

noun
  • A grasp or grip; a close struggle. 

  • A handshake; a way of gripping hands with another person. 

  • A covering (often rubber or foam) on a handle, designed to allow the user a more comfortable or more secure hold on the handle. 

  • A handle. 

  • The ability of a person (or other animal with hands) to grip something with a hand. 

pluck

noun
  • An instance of plucking or pulling sharply. 

  • Guts, nerve, fortitude or persistence. 

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

  • Cheap wine. 

verb
  • 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. 

  • 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. 

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