The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Recorder \Re*cord"er\ (r?*k?rd"?r), n.
   1. One who records; specifically, a person whose official
      duty it is to make a record of writings or transactions.
      [1913 Webster]

   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.
      [1913 Webster]

   3. (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet.
      [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." --Milton.
      [1913 Webster]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

recorder
    n 1: equipment for making records [syn: recorder, recording
         equipment, recording machine]
    2: someone responsible for keeping records [syn: registrar,
       record-keeper, recorder]
    3: a barrister or solicitor who serves as part-time judge in
       towns or boroughs
    4: a tubular wind instrument with 8 finger holes and a fipple
       mouthpiece [syn: fipple flute, fipple pipe, recorder,
       vertical flute]

Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

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



Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary:

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."


Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):

RECORDER. 1. A judicial officer of some cities, possessing generally the
powers and authority of a judge. 3 Yeates' R. 300; 4 Dall. Rep. 299; but see
1 Rep. Const. Ct. 45. Anciently, recorder signified to recite or testify on
re-collection as occasion might require what had previously passed in court,
and this was the duty of the judges, thence called recordeurs. Steph. Plead.
note 11. 2. An officer appointed to make record or enrollment of deeds and
other legal instruments, authorized by law to be recorded.