Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

   6. That which has been publicly achieved in any kind of
      competitive sport as recorded in some authoritative
      manner, as the time made by a winning horse in a race.

   {Court of record} (pron. r?*k?rd" in Eng.), a court whose
      acts and judicial proceedings are written on parchment or
      in books for a perpetual memorial.

   {Debt of record}, a debt which appears to be due by the
      evidence of a court of record, as upon a judgment or a
      cognizance.

   {Trial by record}, a trial which is had when a matter of
      record is pleaded, and the opposite party pleads that
      there is no such record. In this case the trial is by
      inspection of the record itself, no other evidence being
      admissible. --Blackstone.

   {To beat}, or {break}, {the record} (Sporting), to surpass
      any performance of like kind as authoritatively recorded;
      as, to break the record in a walking match.