pen vs tabulator

pen

noun
  • Marks of ink left by a pen. 

  • Penitentiary, i.e. a state or federal prison for convicted felons. 

  • The internal cartilage skeleton of a squid, shaped like a pen. 

  • An enclosure (enclosed area) used to contain domesticated animals, especially sheep or cattle. 

  • A female swan. 

  • Penalty. 

  • A writer, or their style. 

  • The bullpen. 

  • A light pen. 

  • A wing. 

  • A tool, originally made from a feather but now usually a small tubular instrument, containing ink used to write or make marks. 

verb
  • To enclose in a pen. 

  • To write (an article, a book, etc.). 

tabulator

noun
  • The mechanism on a typewriter that sets the position of columns and borders. 

  • A person who counts or tabulates things. 

  • A tab character. 

  • An early data processing machine that produces printed lists and totals from data on punched cards. 

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