house-plunder

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.

1914, John Preston Arthur, “Manners and Customs”, in Western North Carolina: A History (from 1730 to 1913), Asheville, N.C.: The Edward Buncombe Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution; Raleigh, N.C.: Edwards & Broughton Printing Company, →OCLC, page 253

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.

1917, Louise S[aunders] Murdoch, “In Memoriam”, in Almetta of Gabriel’s Run, New York, N.Y.: The Meridian Press, →OCLC, page 101

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.

1938 December, Richard Chase, Kay Chase, quoting R. M. Ward, “Jack and the Bean Tree (The Jack Tales No. 4)”, in Alton C. Morris, editor, Southern Folklore Quarterly, volume II, number 4, Gainesville, Fla.: The University of Florida in cooperation with the Southeastern Folklore Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 202

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.

1948, “The Old Sow and the Three Shoats”, in Richard Chase, editor, Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales […], Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Company, published 1976, →ISBN, page 83

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.

1986, Richard Young; Judy Dockrey Young, compilers, “The Hoop Snake”, in Ozark Tall Tales: Collected from the Oral Tradition, Little Rock, Ark.: August House, published 1989, →ISBN, page 84