canter vs prance

canter

verb
  • To move at such pace. 

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

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. 

prance

verb
  • To spring forward on the hind legs. 

  • To strut about in a showy manner. 

noun
  • A prancing movement. 

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