bedlamer

bedlamer
/bed"leuh meuhr/, n. Newfoundland.
a harp seal, beyond the beater stage but not yet mature.
[1760-70; orig. uncert.; alleged to be a folk-etymological alter. of F bête de la mer beast of the sea, but cf. Brit. dial. bedlam wild, ill-behaved, a troublesome person or animal (developments of BEDLAM)]

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