tipstaff

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: tip=staff

CIDE DICTIONARY

tipstaff, n. 

•  A staff tipped with metal.  Bacon.  [1913 Webster]
•  An officer who bears a staff tipped with metal; a constable.  Macaulay.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

tipstaff, n.
1 a sheriff's officer.
2 a metal-tipped staff carried as a symbol of office.

Etymology

contr. of tipped staff, i.e. tipped with metal

ROGET THESAURUS

tipstaff

Jurisdiction

N jurisdiction, judicature, administration of justice, soc, executive, commission of the peace, magistracy, judge, tribunal, municipality, corporation, bailiwick, shrievalty, lord lieutenant, sheriff, shire reeve, shrieve, constable, selectman, police, police force, the fuzz, constabulary, bumbledom, gendarmerie, officer, bailiff, tipstaff, bum-bailiff, catchpoll, beadle, policeman, cop, police constable, police sergeant, sbirro, alguazil, gendarme, kavass, lictor, mace bearer, huissier, bedel, tithingman, press gang, exciseman, gauger, gager, customhouse officer, douanier, coroner, edile, aedile, portreeve, paritor, posse comitatus, bureau, cutcherry, department, secretariat, long arm of the law, extradition, executive, administrative, municipal, inquisitorial, causidical, judicatory, judiciary, judicial, juridical, coram judice.