tipstaff
nounEtymology From tip + staff.
1
A ceremonial staff, with a metal tip, carried by a constable or bailiff etc as a sign of office
2
An officer, of a court etc. who carries such a staff
- Fire and furies, do a set of boozing tipstaves think to take the man who outwitted Jeffreys and slipped through Kirke's lambs?"1897, Stanley John Weyman, chapter XII, in Shrewsbury: