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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Recorder \Re*cord"er\ (r?*k?rd"?r), noun
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
recorder
noun
1: equipment for making records [syn: {recording equipment}, {recording machine}]
2: someone responsible for keeping records [syn: {registrar}, {record-keeper}]
3: a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in towns or boroughs
4: a woodwind with a vertical pipe and 8 finger holes and a whistle mouthpiece [syn: {fipple flute}, {fipple pipe}, {vertical flute}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
111 Moby Thesaurus words for "recorder": CA, CPA, English horn, Flexowriter typewriter, JA, Pandean pipe, Teleplotter, accountant, accountant general, actuary, alphabetical printer, amicus curiae, assessor, auditor, aulos, bank accountant, bank examiner, barmaster, basset horn, basset oboe, bassoon, bombard, bookkeeper, calculator, certified public accountant, chancellor, chartered accountant, circuit judge, clarinet, clerk, comptroller, contrabassoon, contrafagotto, controller, cost accountant, cost keeper, cromorne, digital graph plotter, double bassoon, double reed, fife, fipple flute, flageolet, flute, hard copy, hautboy, heckelphone, hornpipe, journalizer, judge advocate, judge ordinary, jurat, justice in eyre, justice of assize, lay judge, legal assessor, licorice stick, magnetic recorder, magnetic tape, master, microcards, microfiche, microfilm, military judge, musette, oaten reed, oboe, oboe da caccia, ocarina, ombudsman, ordinary, oscillograph recorder, oscilloscope, panpipe, penny-whistle, piccolo, pipe, police judge, pommer, presiding judge, printout, probate judge, puisne judge, punch cards, punched tape, reader, readout, reckoner, reed, reed instrument, registrar, relay register, sax, saxophone, shawm, single reed, single-reed instrument, sonorophone, sweet potato, syrinx, tabor pipe, tape reader, teletypewriter, tenoroon, tin-whistle, vice-chancellor, whistle, woods, woodwind, woodwind choir, woodwind instrument
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Recorder (Heb. mazkir, i.e., "the mentioner," "rememberancer"), the office first held by Jehoshaphat in the court of David (2 Sam. 8:16), also in the court of Solomon (1 Kings 4:3). The next recorder mentioned is Joah, in the reign of Hezekiah (2 Kings 18:18, 37; Isa. 36:3, 22). In the reign of Josiah another of the name of Joah filled this office (2 Chr. 34:8). The "recorder" was the chancellor or vizier of the kingdom. He brought all weighty matters under the notice of the king, "such as complaints, petitions, and wishes of subjects or foreigners. He also drew up papers for the king's guidance, and prepared drafts of the royal will for the scribes. All treaties came under his oversight; and he had the care of the national archives or records, to which, as royal historiographer, like the same state officer in Assyria and Egypt, he added the current annals of the kingdom."
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