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jackman Sc.|ˈdʒækmən|
[app. f. Jack n.1 4 + man. Referred by Scott, and writers after him, to jack n.2]
An attendant or retainer kept by a nobleman or landowner. Obs. exc. Hist.
1567Gude & Godlie B. (S.T.S.) 197 Preistis, leif ȝour pryde..And Iakmen be ȝour syde. a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Wks. 1846 I. 37 The Bischop of Brechin, having his placeboes and jackmen in the toun, buffated the Freèr, and called him Heretick. 1637–50Row Hist. Kirk (1842) 172 Familie exercises, prayer, and the word, and singing of psalms..are profaned and abused, by calling on the cook, stewart, or jackman, to performe that religious duetie, the masters of families ashamed so to honour God in their awin persons. 1820Scott Monast. ix, The chiefs and landed proprietors retaining in their service what were called jack⁓men, from the ‘jack’, or doublet quilted with iron, which they wore as defensive armour. 1849J. Grant Kirkaldy of G. iv. 35 A train of swash-bucklers or stout jackmen.
¶ Erroneously put for jarkman, q.v. |