Usually means: Madman from historical English asylum.
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  4. Tom o' Bedlam: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
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  6. Tom o Bedlam: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Tom o' Bedlam)

noun:  (historical) A wandering mendicant discharged as incurable from Bethlehem Hospital, England.
noun:  (archaic) Any wandering mendicant, either mad or pretending to be so.
noun:  (archaic) A madman; a bedlamite.


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