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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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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.
We'll start with a riff on a guitar, mandolin, bass or drums, and work it up from there.
Bolivian music also uses the charango, which is a cross between the mandolin, guitar, and banjo.
After the accident that crippled him, Delbert could no longer play mandolin.
Then came the fusion band Esperanto, who had a veena, mandolin, flute, and assorted percussion instruments and guitars.

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