banister vs fencepost

banister

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

  • The handrail on the side of a staircase. 

verb
  • To construct a banister 

  • To act as a banister 

fencepost

noun
  • A post which helps hold up a fence. 

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