recorder

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
recorder/rɪˈkɔːdə(r)/

▶noun

• 1 an apparatus for recording sound, pictures, or data.

• 2 a person who keeps records.

• 3 (Recorder) (in England and Wales) a barrister appointed to serve as a part-time judge.

  ■ Brit. historical a judge in certain courts.

• 4 a simple woodwind instrument without keys, played by blowing air through a shaped mouthpiece.

– derivatives
recordership noun.

– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. recordour, from OFr. recorder ‘bring to remembrance’; partly reinforced by the verb record (also used in the obs. sense ‘practise a tune’).