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| prad¹ | Prad: Horse [OED]
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| Praties(1) | Potatoes (Irish)
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| pratties¹ | Potatoes
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| premium | The excess of the prospective price of a currency or commodity over the present price; (Stock Market) the amount by which the price of a stock exceeds its issue price or the value of the assets it represents [OED]
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| Pressed¹ | Pressed:- Forced to enlist in, or seized for use in, military, royal, or public service. [OED] Usually applied to impressment into the royal navy [CPB]
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| prig'd¹ | prigged: Stolen
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| prig¹ | A thief [CPB]
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| prospectus |
A railway company’s first formal statement of its purposes, both an advertisement and an appeal for subscribers to take up its shares. [Oxford Companion to British Railway History]
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| Public¹ | Public house : A building whose principal business is the sale of alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises; a pub, a tavern [OED]
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| puddler | Puddler: A person who puddles iron or a machine for doing so. [OED]
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| puff¹ | Puff - To praise, extol, or commend, especially. extravagantly, unduly, or in inflated or unjustifiable terms; to make the subject of a laudatory advertisement, review, etc.; to make favourable mention of, promote, publicize. [OED]
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| pukka | Sure, certain, reliable; genuine, bona fide, correct. Hence more generally: real, not sham; (of information) factually correct; (of persons) authentic, not pretended; proper or correct in behaviour, socially acceptable [OED]
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| pullman¹ | Designating a railway carriage affording special comfort, especially. one with sleeping facilities. [OED]
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| punch² | A weekly magazine of humour and satire established in 1841. It was popular among the bourgeoisie but by using humour it was able to address a wide range of social issues in terms that might otherwise have been objectionable to its readership. |
| punch¹ | Punch: A drink made from a mixture of alcoholic and non-alcoholic ingredients, now usually wine or spirits mixed with water, fruit, spices, and sugar, and often served hot; (also occasionally) a similar non-alcoholic drink.[OED]
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| Purred¹ | Purred:- punched or kicked (N.W.England)
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| Put(1) | A card game for two, three, or four players, in which three cards are dealt to each player, a point being scored either by winning two or more tricks or by bluffing the other players into conceding Also - in Stock Market usage - An option to sell assets at an agreed price on or before a particular date. More fully put option.
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| Putter¹ | Putter a term used on Northumberland for a person, usually a boy or young man who pushes tubs of coal from the coal face to the area at the bottom of the shaft known as the pit eye. Before 1842 women did this type of work in some coalfields.. A hurrier in Yorkshire, a waggoner or drawer in Lancashire.[i] The practice of employing boys to do this work continued after the 1842 Act Mines and Collieries Act prohibited all girls and boys under ten years old from working underground in coal mines. [ii] Reference:
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