heave-ho vs pluck

heave-ho

verb
  • To pull forcefully. 

intj
  • An exclamation used when pulling, especially by sailors while pulling on a rope. 

noun
  • A rejection; a forced removal. 

  • A cry of heave-ho. 

pluck

verb
  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

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

  • 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. 

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 heave-ho and pluck occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )