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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



... them a thousand apologies for having interrupted their slumbers, and for so rudely depriving them of their guest. He advanced in his excuse the troublous nature of the times, and threw in a bunch of malisons at the circumstances which forced upon soldiers the odious duties of the tipstaff, hoping that we would think him none the less a gentleman for the unsavoury business upon ...
— Bardelys the Magnificent • Rafael Sabatini


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