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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



... Company would soon apply to my Lord for one, which if they did, he lodged in Aldersgate street, where the Officer might at any time find him. This the Clerk took down in writing, and a Warrant being soon granted, the Tipstaff went accordingly, and took him without ...
— Pirates • Anonymous
... the judge. "Tipstaff, take away the witness to prison. It is painful to me," he added, in a broken voice, "to feel compelled thus to punish you for an act which, however I may respect the motives that dictate it, I cannot overlook. The ends ...
— Fardorougha, The Miser - The Works of William Carleton, Volume One • William Carleton
... disease has a crisis; and when a lounge through the streets became at once useless and inconvenient—when the novelty of being cut by all my noble friends, and of being seduously followed by that generation who, unlike the fickle world, reserve their tipstaff attentions for the day of adversity, had lost its zest, and I was thinking whether time was to be better fought off by a plunge to the bottom of the Thames, or by the muzzle of one of Manton's hair- triggers—I was saved by a plunge into the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 12, Issue 337, October 25, 1828. • Various


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