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  • noun Plural form of jackman.

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Examples

  • He had no other weapon than a staff in his hand, it not being thought fit that persons of his degree (for he was an apprentice to the old glover) should appear on the street armed with sword or dagger, a privilege which the jackmen, or military retainers of the nobility, esteemed exclusively their own.

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • Dost thou not remember that thou hadst a sort of quarrel with her even before thy last departure from Perth, because thou wouldst not go like other honest quiet burghers, but must be ever armed, like one of the rascally jackmen that wait on the nobility?

    The Fair Maid of Perth 2008

  • The Bischop of Brechin, [73] having his placeboes and jackmen in the toun, buffatted the Freir, and called him Heretick.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • Butt fy on the jackmen that did nott thare dewitie; for had the one parte of thame reacontered the other, then had all gone rycht.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • The Bischope preached to his jackmen, and to some old bosses of the toune.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • France the "derriere du Pape," from the convenient posture in which it lay for their correction, one may fancy the same scenes to have taken place on a larger scale, which are described as occurring at the bridge of Kennaquhair, the same struggle between secular and monastic authority, the same sullen important bridgeward, and the same forcible arguments employed by wandering troops of jackmen to effect a passage.

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • Archbishop's jackmen sliced Presbyterian professors with the claymore, as

    Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir Andrew Lang 1878

  • Dost thou not remember that thou hadst a sort of quarrel with her even before thy last departure from Perth, because thou wouldst not go like other honest quiet burghers, but must be ever armed, like one of the rascally jackmen that wait on the nobility?

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • He had no other weapon than a staff in his hand, it not being thought fit that persons of his degree (for he was an apprentice to the old glover) should appear on the street armed with sword or dagger, a privilege which the jackmen, or military retainers of the nobility, esteemed exclusively their own.

    The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day Walter Scott 1801

  • Sorry pattyman - I guess you prefer all three claws rammed up there? jimdafan on January 30, 2009 at 15: 23: 39 looks like x3 with jackmans face in the backround .... jackmen looks pist though I like that

    "SuperHeroHype.com - 30 most recent stories" 2009

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