hurl vs pluck

hurl

noun
  • The act of hitting the sliotar with the hurley. 

  • A throw, especially a violent throw; a fling. 

  • The act of vomiting. 

  • Vomit. 

  • A conveyance in a wheeled vehicle; a ride in a car, etc. 

verb
  • To vomit. 

  • To utter (harsh or derogatory speech), especially at its target. 

  • To throw (something) with force. 

  • To participate in the sport of hurling. 

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