scribe vs writer

scribe

noun
  • Someone who writes; a draughtsperson; a writer for another; especially, an official or public writer; an amanuensis, secretary, notary, or copyist. 

  • A person who writes books or documents by hand as a profession.ᵂ 

  • A journalist. 

  • A very sharp, steel drawing implement used in engraving and etching, a scriber. 

verb
  • To write, engrave, or mark upon; to inscribe. 

  • To write or draw with a scribe. 

  • To cut (something) in order to fit it closely to an irregular surface, as a baseboard to a floor which is out of level, a board to the curves of a moulding, etc. 

  • To record, as a scribe. 

  • To score or mark with compasses or a scribing iron. 

  • To write. 

writer

noun
  • A person who writes, or produces literary work; an author can refer to themself as "the writer". 

  • An ordinary legal practitioner in Scottish country towns. 

  • A petty officer in the United States navy who keeps the watch-muster and other books of the ship. 

  • A clerk of a certain rank in the service of the East India Company, who, after serving a certain number of years, became a factor. 

  • A graffiti artist. 

  • Anything that writes or produces output. 

  • The seller of an option. 

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