recorder Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun equipment for making records
    recording machine; recording equipment.
  2. noun someone responsible for keeping records
    record-keeper; registrar.
  3. noun a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs
  4. noun a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple mouthpiece
    fipple flute; fipple pipe; vertical flute.

WordNet

Re*cord"er noun
Definitions
  1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
  2. The title of the chief judical officer of some cities and boroughs; also, of the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. The Recorder of London is judge of the Lord Mayor's Court, and one of the commissioners of the Central Criminal Court.
  3. (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. Obs. "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton.

Webster 1913