Recorder /(r?*k?rd"?r)/

Re·cord·er

Recorder

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. A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. (Mus.) [Obs.]