pluck vs thrum

pluck

verb
  • To pull or twitch sharply. 

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

  • To pull something sharply; to pull something out 

  • 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. 

thrum

verb
  • To cause a steady rhythmic vibration, usually by plucking. 

  • To insert short pieces of rope-yarn or spun yarn in. 

  • To make a monotonous drumming noise. 

  • To furnish with thrums; to insert tufts in; to fringe. 

adj
  • Made of or woven from thrum. 

noun
  • Small pieces of rope yarn used for making mats or mops. 

  • Any short piece of leftover thread or yarn; a tuft or tassel. 

  • A fringe made of such threads. 

  • The ends of the warp threads in a loom which remain unwoven attached to the loom when the web is cut. 

  • A spicy taste; a tang. 

  • A threadlike part of a flower; a stamen. 

  • A tuft, bundle, or fringe of any threadlike structures, as hairs on a leaf, fibers of a root. 

  • A bundle of minute blood vessels, a plexus. 

  • A mat made of canvas and tufts of yarn. 

  • A thrumming sound; a hum or vibration. 

  • A shove out of place; a small displacement or fault along a seam. 

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