balusters vs banister

balusters

banister

noun
  • The handrail on the side of a staircase. 

  • One of the vertical supports of a handrail; a baluster. 

verb
  • To construct a banister 

  • To act as a banister 

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