merchant vs pole star

merchant

noun
  • Someone who is noted for a stated type of activity or behaviour. 

  • A trading vessel; a merchantman. 

  • A person who traffics in commodities for profit. 

  • The owner or operator of a retail business. 

verb
  • As a resident of a region, to buy goods from a non-resident and sell them to another non-resident. 

pole star

noun
  • A person, principle, or thing which acts as a guide; a guiding light; also, something which attracts much attention; a centre of attention. 

  • The star visible to the naked eye which was in the past, is now, or will be in the future nearest a celestial pole of a planet. 

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