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Recorder
Pronunciation : Re*cord"er (r*krd"r)
Part of Speech : n.
Definition : 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.)
Defn: A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
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