pluck vs strum

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. 

strum

verb
  • To play (a guitar or other stringed instrument) using various strings simultaneously. 

noun
  • The sound made by playing various strings of a stringed instrument simultaneously. 

  • The act of strumming. 

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