Recorder

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.

II. Recorder ·noun One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.

III. Recorder ·noun 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.

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