heft vs pluck

heft

noun
  • The act or effort of heaving; violent strain or exertion. 

  • Weight. 

  • Heaviness, the feel of weight; heftiness. 

  • A piece of mountain pasture to which a farm animal has become hefted (accustomed). 

  • Poor condition in sheep caused by mineral deficiency. 

  • Influence; importance. 

  • A number of sheets of paper fastened together, as for a notebook. 

  • An animal that has become hefted thus. 

  • A part of a serial publication. 

verb
  • To make (a farm animal, especially a flock of sheep) accustomed and attached to an area of mountain pasture. 

  • To test the weight of something by lifting it. 

  • To lift up; especially, to lift something heavy. 

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