handful vs plural

handful

noun
  • A small number, usually approximately five. 

  • A five-year prison sentence. 

  • Something which can only be managed with difficulty. 

  • A group or number of things; a bunch. 

  • The amount that a hand will grasp or contain. 

plural

noun
  • The plural number. In English, referring to more or less than one of something. 

  • A person with some form of multiplicity, particularly dissociative identity disorder. 

  • A word in the form in which it potentially refers to something other than one person or thing; and other than two things if the language has a dual form. 

adj
  • Pluralistic. 

  • Consisting of or containing more than one of something. 

  • In systems of number, not singular or not singular or dual. 

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