Re*cord"er (r?*k?rd"?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.) A kind of wind instrument
resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft
recorders." Milton.