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Tipstaff

noun
(pl. tipstaff)
1.
Staff with a metal tip carried as a sign of office by e.g. a bailiff or constable.





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"Tipstaff" Quotes from Famous Books



... was brought to me, by which I found that the court adjudged me to pay L1 2s. 6d., for damages and costs. I asked who brought it, and was told it was the son of the potato-merchant, accompanied by a tipstaff. I requested the pleasure of their company, and asked the legal gentleman what it ...
— Newton Forster • Frederick Marryat
... judicatory, judicature, judiciary, forum, mall; courtyard, quadrangle, cortile; jurisdiction; royal household, princely retinue; assize. Associated Words: curialistic, aulic, judicial, judiciary, forensic, docket, tipstaff, beadle, apparitor, summoner, dies judicus, ...
— Putnam's Word Book • Louis A. Flemming


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