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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



... The tipstaff waited cheerfully enough, until he heard the crack of a revolver-shot echo through the passages of the big boarding-house. Then he rushed upstairs—to find that Gavan Blake had gone before another Court than the one that was ...
— An Outback Marriage • Andrew Barton Paterson
... beadle, your lordship," added the host, and the under-strapper inside the greatcoat saluted the Colonel with a flourish of his tipstaff. ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough
... And now a tipstaff came up with a young man in his grasp, and said, "Senor governor, this youth was coming towards us, and as soon as he saw the officers of justice he turned about and ran like a deer, a sure proof that he must be some evil-doer; I ran after him, and had it not been that ...
— Don Quixote • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra


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