canter vs lurch

canter

verb
  • To cause to move at a canter; to ride (a horse) at a canter. 

  • To move at such pace. 

noun
  • One who makes hypocritical pretensions to goodness; one who uses canting language. 

  • A ride on a horse at such speed. 

  • One who cants or whines; a beggar. 

  • A gait of a horse between a trot and a gallop, consisting of three beats and a "suspension" phase, where there are no feet on the ground. Also describing this gait on other four legged animals. 

lurch

verb
  • To make such a sudden, unsteady movement. 

  • To defeat in the game of cribbage with a lurch (double score as explained under noun entry). 

noun
  • A sudden or unsteady movement. 

  • A double score in cribbage for the winner when his/her adversary has not yet pegged his/her 31st hole. 

  • An old game played with dice and counters; a variety of the game of tables. 

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