Marshal, mär -shal, s

one who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other a embly, or directs the order of proce ion on state occasions; a harbinger; pursuivant; the chief officer of arms, whose duty was to regulate combats at tournaments; a military officer of high rank; in France, the highest military officer of the state; the United States, a civil officer with powers similar to a sheriff: v.α. to arrange ina suitable manner; to arrange coats in a shield [Her. ] Earl Marshal of England, the chief officer of arms at the Heralds' College, a dignity hereditary in the family of the dukes of Norfolk. (Literally, a groom, from Ger. Marah, ahorse, and Chalk, a servant.)