Oh, musical instruments. Nevermind.
Similarly I very recently learned the name of the flute-like instrument is called "recorder" :-(
Apparently the multiple meanings were already present to some extent as far back as Ancient Greek: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BD%84%CF%81%CE%B3%CE%B1%C...
It's kind of like '(useful) thingy'.
> Similarly I very recently learned the name of the flute-like instrument is called "recorder" :-(
That one bugged me a lot in elementary school, as I kept thinking "if it's called a recorder, it should record something!".
Which makes sense as they're generally practice instruments, you don't have bands or orchestras with recorder-players, we (at least in the UK) play them in school music lessons without having specific instrument lessons in it or anything else; then some want to play wind instruments and have lessons in flute or clarinet or trumpet or whatever, but not recorder.
My native language, Russian, has the same problem with the word "organ", but at least its two meanings are pronounced with different stressed syllables. There's also the word "замок", can mean a lock or a castle, again depending on which syllable is stressed.
> flute-like instrument is called "recorder"
TIL. This name makes no sense to me.