noun a kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
2. recorder ·noun one who records; specifically, a person whose official duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
3. 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.