The vagaries of language

I read with amusement a couple of weeks back that a suit of King Henry VIII's armour was being flown back to Britain from America to be reunited with its arms for the first time in 100 years at the Dressed to Kill exhibition at The Tower of London.

Visions of an emotional event with a museum curator attaching the arms back on to rapturous applause flooded my mind......only to realise that 'arms' actually meant 'weaponry' when I read that the exhibition was all about swords and spears.