Re-cōrd'er, n.
n. 1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to register writings or transactions; one who enrolls or records.
- The chief judicial officer of some cities and boroughs; the chief law officer of the corporation of London; the chief justice of an East Indian settlement. Simmonds.
- (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.]
They move In perfect phalanx to the Dorian mood Of flutes and soft recorders. Milton.