recorder

Etymology 1

From Middle English recordour, borrowed from Old French recordour, from Old French recordeor, from Medieval Latin recordātor, from Latin recordor (“call to mind, remember, recollect”), from re- (“back, again”) + cor (“heart; mind”).

noun

1. An apparatus for recording; a device which records.
2. Agent noun of record; one who records.
3. A judge in a municipal court.

Etymology 2

From Middle English recorder, from record (“to practice (music)”).

noun

1. (music) A musical instrument of the woodwind family; a type of fipple flute, a simple internal duct flute.
   Recorders are made in various sizes, from the high soprano or descant recorder to the low bass recorder.
   And when they paused on a hilltop for lunch, he whipped out his battered recorder and commenced to tootling “Greensleeves,” scaring off all living creatures within a five-mile radius—which may have been his intention. 1982, Anne Tyler, chapter 5, in Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, New York: Knopf, page 133
   […] he had huffed into his white plastic recorder while scowling at the sheets of music that lay open on the wobbly stainless-steel stand. 2017, Daniel Mendelsohn, An Odyssey: A Father, a Son, and an Epic, New York: Penguin Random House