Driver

One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that urges or compels anything else to move onward.

The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the movements of a locomotive.

An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at their work.

A part that transmits motion to another part by contact with it, or through an intermediate relatively movable part, as a gear which drives another, or a lever which moves another through a link, etc. Specifically:

The driving wheel of a locomotive.

An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to turn a carrier.

A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the upper stone.

The after sail in a ship or bark, being a fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker.

a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used for hitting long shots from the tee

(computer science) a program that determines how a computer will communicate with a peripheral device