A small compter, or prison, run by a Sheriff of the City of London from medieval times until 1815. [Wikipedia]  

Before 1974 1 pound (£) sterling = 20 shillings; 1 shilling = 12 old pennies
UK currency was 'decimalised' in 1974

1 pound weight = approx 0.454 kg

Prad: Horse [OED]

Potatoes (Irish)

Potatoes

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]

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]

prigged: Stolen

A thief [CPB]

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]  

Public house : A building whose principal business is the sale of alcoholic drinks to be consumed on the premises; a pub, a tavern [OED]

Puddler: A person who puddles iron or a machine for doing so.
Puddle: To heat and stir (molten pig iron) with iron oxide in a reverbatory furnace, so as to oxidize and remove the carbon and other impurities and produce wrought iron

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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]

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]

Designating a railway carriage affording special comfort, especially. one with sleeping facilities. [OED]

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. 

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]

Purred:- punched or  kicked (N.W.England)

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.