What is a kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton called?
recorder — (Mus.) A kind of wind instrument resembling the flageolet. [Obs.] "Flutes and soft recorders." Milton. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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