RECORDER

recorder, recording equipment, recording machine

(noun) equipment for making records

recorder

(noun) a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs

registrar, record-keeper, recorder

(noun) someone responsible for keeping records

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

An apparatus for recording; a device which records.

Agent noun of record; one who records.

A judge in a municipal court.

Etymology 2

Noun

recorder (plural recorders)

(musical instrument) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.

Anagrams

• re-record, rerecord

Source: Wiktionary

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Re*cord"er (r*krd"r), n.

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.)

Definition: A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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