Brewer's: Tipstaff

A constable so called because he carried a staff tipped with a bull's horn. In the documents of Edward III. allusion is often made to his staff. (See Rymer's F&oclig;dera.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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