banister vs guiderail

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 

guiderail

noun
  • Synonym of guardrail 

  • a track that guides a rocket from its launch point into the air 

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