Be careful of drawers

Drawer - I searched a dresser drawer for my passport and wondered how the word drawer was spelled and why such a word?

Sometimes the English language amuses me beyond the ridiculous. Instead of having twenty words that mean snow in different forms as Eskimos do, our romance language takes a word and gives it twenty meanings that require special understanding of the context in which it is used.
Take the word drawer--
Is it one who draws? Such as draws liquor? Or draws designs? Or draws bills of exchange?
Is it a sliding box, opened by sliding out and closed by sliding in? (Out from where? Or in?)
Is it an article of clothing (plural) for the lower body? Drawers?
Maybe the researcher who tried to describe the word in all its glory was fanciful and was careful to include everything within thought so the meaning would be clear.
I hope the translation dictionaries for foreign languages are clear on context. Otherwise one could get into serious trouble by putting hands in the wrong drawers of the person to whom one visits. Or maybe not!
Naomi Sherer