driver vs patron

driver

noun
  • A mallet. 

  • A person who drives some other vehicle. 

  • A golf club used to drive the ball a great distance. 

  • One who drives something, in any sense of the verb drive. 

  • A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops. 

  • A screwdriver. 

  • a kind of sail, smaller than a fore and aft spanker on a square-rigged ship, a driver is tied to the same spars. 

  • Something that drives something, in any sense of the verb drive. 

  • A pilot (person who flies aircraft). 

  • A device driver; a program that acts as an interface between an application and hardware, written specifically for the device it controls. 

  • A person who drives a motorized vehicle such as a car or a bus. 

  • A tamping iron. 

patron

noun
  • A padrone. 

  • A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint. 

  • One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. 

  • An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble. 

  • A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant. 

  • A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights. 

  • One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. 

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