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Tom: typical name of a servant or man of the lower class LLL. V. ii. 922 “Tom bears logs into the hall,” All'sW. II. ii. 25 “fit . . . as Tib's rush for Tom's foRefinger,” 1H4 II. i. 6 [an ostler's name], II. iv. 9 [a drawer's name], 2H6 II. iii. 77.