Meaning of house-plunder | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [C1]

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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