house plunder
Syllables: house plund·er/ˈhaʊs ˌplʌndə/US/ˈhaʊs ˌplʌndɚ/
house plunder noun: miscellaneous household items.
Noun
house plunder (uncountable)
- Miscellaneous household items.
- [P]eople had stock, and children, and house plunder, and a stout log cabin to cover them, […]1852, Cora Montgomery, “A Pioneer Mother”, in Eagle Pass; or, Life on the Border, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam & Co., […], →OCLC, page 28
- 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...1885 December 11 – 1886 February 11, William Penn Ryman, quoting John R. Barton, “The Early Settlement of Dallas Township, Pa.”, in Horace Edwin Hayden, editor, Proceedings and Collections of the...
- Synonyms:
- household goods
Examples of house plunder in a sentence
- Also I will sell all of my house plunder, such as bedding, chairs, tables, parlor and kitchen furniture.1888 August 15, B. T. Igleheart, “Notice”, in McHenry Rhoads, Frank L. Felix, editors, The Hartford Herald, volume XIV, number 33...
- I 'spect you'll be able to haul all their house plunder at one load.1940, Jesse Stuart, “Part IV”, in Trees of Heaven, Lexington, Ky.: University Press of Kentucky, published 1980, →ISBN, section 1, page 188:
- 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.1956, Fred Gipson, chapter 1, in Old Yeller, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 7:
- 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.2007, Anne Shelby, “Grind Mill Grind”, in The Adventures of Molly Whuppie and Other Appalachian Folktales, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of...
Synonyms of house plunder
Forms of house plunder
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Origin of house plunder
From house + plunder (“(chiefly Southern US, slang, dated) baggage, luggage; household items; personal belongings”).
Questions about house plunder
- What does house plunder mean?
- House plunder means miscellaneous household items.
- How do you use house plunder in a sentence?
- Also I will sell all of my house plunder, such as bedding, chairs, tables, parlor and kitchen furniture.
- What part of speech is house plunder?
- House plunder is a noun.
- How do you pronounce house plunder?
- House plunder is pronounced /ˈhaʊs ˌplʌndə/ (UK).
Words near house plunder in the dictionary
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