Noun

(packmen)

(archaic) Someone who travels with a pack, especially a travelling salesman.

*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Thomas Hardy, title=The Return of the Native, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Wildeve was standing with his back to the fireplace smoking a cigar; and the promoter of the raffle, a packman from a distant town, was expatiating upon the value of the fabric as material for a summer dress. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1900, author=Various, title=Japanese Literature, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=L Beneath love's heavy weight my falt'ring soul Plods, like the packman , o'er life's dusty road. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1828, author=David Macbeth Moir, title=The Life of Mansie Wauch, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Magneezhy was in an awful case; if he had been already shot, he could not have looked more clay and corpse-like; so I took up a douce earnest confabulation, while the stramash was drawing to a bloody conclusion, with Mr Harry Molasses, the fourth in the spree, who was standing behind Bloatsheet with a large mahogany box under his arm, something in shape like that of a licensed packman , ganging about from house to house, through the country-side, selling toys and trinkets; or niffering plaited ear-rings, and suchlike, with young lasses, for old silver coins or cracked teaspoons. }}

Noun

(jackmen)

(motor racing) A member of the pit crew responsible for lifting the car with a jack.

*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=June 9, author=The Associated Press, title=Sports Briefing, work=New York Times citation

, passage=While Stewart’s team checked out the damage to his car in the pit stall, Busch pulled next to Stewart’s car, forcing the jackman Jason Lee to jump back and onto the hood. }}

(obsolete) One wearing a jack; a horse soldier; a retainer.

* Sir Walter Scott

Christie the laird's chief jackman .

(obsolete) A cream cheese.

(Webster 1913)