单词 | tipstaff |
释义 | tipstaffn. a. A staff with a tip or cap of metal, carried as a badge by certain officials: see 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod yardc1275 tipped stickc1386 bastona1400 mace?a1419 wandc1430 warderc1440 baculc1449 roda1450 verge1493 staff1535 tipstaff1541 verger1547 truncheon1573 vare1578 baton?1590 trunch1590 fasces1598 macer wanda1600 virge1610 batoona1652 stick1677 shaku1875 poker1905 1541–2 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 12 §26 Anye of the Kinges..officers, that..shall strike any person..withe anye staffe commonye called a Tipp staffe. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 281 Sergeaunts and other officers holding tipstaues in their hands. 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love i. i. 6 Two suspicious Fellows like lawful Pads, that wou'd knock a Man down with Pocket-Tipstaves. ΚΠ 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. T. More in tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis 99 Linckt was in wedlock a loftye Thrasonical huf snuffe: In gate al on typstau's stalcking, in phisnomye daring. 2. An official carrying a tipped staff; spec. (a) a sheriff's officer, bailiff, constable; (b) an officer appointed to wait upon a court in session; a court crier or usher. archaic. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff beadlec1000 ridemanlOE cacherela1325 outrider1332 bailiff1377 catchpolea1382 bailiec1386 officer?1387 sheriff's manc1400 attacher1440 messenger1482 tipped staffc1500 servitor1527 bailie-errant1528 processar1534 bum-bailiff1560 tipstaff1570 nut-hook1600 saffo1607 servera1612 bailiff-errant1612 bum-bailey1615 process servera1616 buckle-bosom1622 bumbee1653 exploiter1653 moar1656 bum1659 bummer1675 bumbail1696 bulldog1699 sheriff's officer1703 bum-trap1749 bound-bailiff1768 shelly-coata1774 body snatcher1778 lurcher1785 fool-finder1796 messenger1801 bugaboo1809 borough-bailiff1812 sheriff mair1812 speciality1815 grab1823 legalist1835 candy man1863 writter1882 sheriff1928 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 1365/1 The knight Marshall with all hys tippe staues. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xlv. xxix. 1220 When they saw the tipstaves and huishers to keepe the doores and places of entrie. 1687 in J. R. Bloxham Magdalen Coll. & James II (1886) (modernized text) 148 Then their Lordships..commissioned Atterbury the Tipstaff to fetch a Smith to force them open. 1710 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum II Tip-staves, are the Warden of the Fleets Officers attending the Queen's Courts with a Painted Staff, for taking into Custody such Persons [etc.]. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. ix. 21/2 Those ministering Sheriffs and Lord-Lieutenants and Hangmen and Tipstaves. 1882 W. Ballantine Some Exper. Barrister's Life xli. 387 They were tipstaves, prepared to take [him]..into custody. 1888 J. Gow Compan. to Classics 290 Order was maintained by tip-staffs, ῥαβδοῦχοι. Derivatives ˈtipˌstavery n. a body of tipstaffs.Apparently an isolated use. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > one who administers justice > an officer of the court > [noun] > official who executes orders of court > bailiff > body of tipstavery1911 1911 B. Capes Loaves & Fishes 224 Cracking their inevitable chestnuts for the benefit of an obsequious tipstavery. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1541 |
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