Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A soldier wearing a jack; especially, a follower of a nobleman or knight.
  • noun A cream-cheese.
  • noun A person who made counterfeit licenses, etc. Fraternitye of Vacabondes, p. 4.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer. See 3d Jack, n.
  • noun obsolete A cream cheese.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun motor racing A member of the pit crew responsible for lifting the car with a jack.
  • noun obsolete One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer.
  • noun obsolete A cream cheese.

Etymologies

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jack +‎ -man

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