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What is a mandolin?

What is a mandolin? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (music) A stringed instrument and a member of the lute family, having eight strings in four courses, frequently tuned as a violin, and with either a bowl-shaped back or a flat back.
  2. A kitchen tool used for slicing vegetables (usually spelled mandoline).
  3. (military) An RAF World War II code name for patrols to attack enemy railway transport and other ground targets.
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On this album she plays guitar, tenor guitar, mandolin and tenor banjo slightly more than she plays fiddle.
She had minimal skills on the oboe, French horn, guitar, viola, mandolin, and penny whistle.
The songs are accompanied by guitar, mandolin, piano and the occasional glockenspiel and there is a good variety of each.
After the accident that crippled him, Delbert could no longer play mandolin.
Bolivian music also uses the charango, which is a cross between the mandolin, guitar, and banjo.
As the song comes to a close, a mandolin slowly takes over, building a discreet line around a series of found sounds.

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