Meaning of house plunder | Babel Free

Definitions

Miscellaneous household items.

Southern-US, uncountable

Examples

“[P]eople had stock, and children, and house plunder, and a stout log cabin to cover them, […]”

“I can count many families living in log houses with a ladder only for a stairway to the loft, where one or more beds and sometimes house plunder and grain were kept; while the room below—kitchen, dining-room and parlor—where the wool was carded into rolls, spun and sometimes woven into cloth, prepared for the puller, to be made into good warm winter goods.”

“Also I will sell all of my house plunder, such as bedding, chairs, tables, parlor and kitchen furniture.”

“I'm the squire from Buckskin Township, an' I rather think I married that old lady with red cheeks to an oldish man in a butternut suit, drivin' a span of grays to a green wagon full of house plunder, an' with two red cows tied behind.”

“Each girl got a cow, a mare and sufficient "house[-]plunder" with which to set up house-keeping, but they rarely got any land, the husband being expected to provide that.”

“Why, she married that oldest boy of little Ike's, a moughty well-turned, civil, workin' boy, an' his folks give 'im a heifer an' some house[-]plunder, an' her mam give 'em a bed an' a nice lot uv quilts, an' they've set up fer theirselves.”

“So Jack got all them things from the giant and gathered up all the house-plunder that wasn't tore up when the house hit the ground.”

“I 'spect you'll be able to haul all their house plunder at one load. Them mules could pull that slab shack they live in, house plunder and the family if you could git it all on the wagon.”

“Fin'lly the old sow she fixed Jack three days' rations and a little house-plunder on a drag-sled and he headed for the wilderness.”

“That made me recollect how Birdsong Creek had got its name. Mama had named it when she and Papa came to settle. Mama had told me about it. She said she named it the first day she and Papa got there, with Mama driving the ox cart loaded with our house plunder, and with Papa driving the cows and horses.”

“Knowing how much Grandma wanted a lumber house, Grandpa cut down the buck-tree and ripsawed it into boards. He put up a fine board house, and they moved all their house-plunder in.”

“The last feller that lived thar tuck off so fast he left his beds an' house[-]plunder thar.”

“She wished, though, there had been a way to take more of the house-plunder. […] Still and all, it was a wrench to leave her beds and her tables, her chairs, and the dish dresser Daniel had made for her.”

“You'd never calkelate he was mean-turned from his looks. But he grab-snatched everything the old man had. Got away with his house[-]plunder even.”

“Then they got to asking the mill to grind out good clothes for them to wear and new house plunder, and it ground out that. Then the man, he would say the right words, and the mill would quit.”

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