"tipstaff" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From tip + staff.",
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      "form": "tipstaffs",
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      "form": "tipstaves",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      "glosses": [
        "A ceremonial staff, with a metal tip, carried by a constable or bailiff etc as a sign of office"
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          "office"
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      "examples": [
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          "ref": "1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XII, in Shrewsbury:",
          "text": "Fire and furies, do a set of boozing tipstaves think to take the man who outwitted Jeffreys and slipped through Kirke's lambs?\"",
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