The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Spanker \Spank"er\ (sp[a^][ng]k"[~e]r), n.
   1. One who spanks, or anything used as an instrument for
      spanking.
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   2. (Naut.) The after sail of a ship or bark, being a
      fore-and-aft sail attached to a boom and gaff; --
      sometimes called driver. See Illust. under Sail.
      --Totten.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. One who takes long, quick strides in walking; also, a fast
      horse. [Colloq.]
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   4. Something very large, or larger than common; a whopper, as
      a stout or tall person. [Colloq.]
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   Spanker boom (Naut.), a boom to which a spanker sail is
      attached. See Illust. of Ship.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Driver \Driv"er\, n. [From Drive.]
   1. One who, or that which, drives; the person or thing that
      urges or compels anything else to move onward.
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   2. The person who drives beasts or a carriage; a coachman; a
      charioteer, etc.; hence, also, one who controls the
      movements of a any vehicle.
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   3. An overseer of a gang of slaves or gang of convicts at
      their work.
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   4. (Mach.) 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:
      (a) The driving wheel of a locomotive.
      (b) An attachment to a lathe, spindle, or face plate to
          turn a carrier.
      (c) A crossbar on a grinding mill spindle to drive the
          upper stone.
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   5. (Naut.) The after sail in a ship or bark, being a
      fore-and-aft sail attached to a gaff; a spanker. --Totten.
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   6. An implement used for driving; as:
      (a) A mallet.
      (b) A tamping iron.
      (c) A cooper's hammer for driving on barrel hoops.
      (d) A wooden-headed golf club with a long shaft, for
          playing the longest strokes.
          [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

   Driver ant (Zool.), a species of African stinging ant; one
      of the visiting ants (Anomma arcens); -- so called
      because they move about in vast armies, and drive away or
      devour all insects and other small animals.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

driver
    n 1: the operator of a motor vehicle [ant: nondriver]
    2: someone who drives animals that pull a vehicle
    3: a golfer who hits the golf ball with a driver
    4: (computer science) a program that determines how a computer
       will communicate with a peripheral device [syn: driver,
       device driver]
    5: a golf club (a wood) with a near vertical face that is used
       for hitting long shots from the tee [syn: driver, number
       one wood]

The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):

driver
 n.

    1. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets
    commands and dispatches them for execution.

    2. [techspeak] In device driver, code designed to handle a particular
    peripheral device such as a magnetic disk or tape unit.

    3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in general, a
    program that translates some device-independent or other common format to
    something a real device can actually understand.