Both Uses of
plunder
in
Wuthering Heights
- Cathy had been caught in the fact of plundering, or, at least, hunting out the nests of the grouse.†
Chpt 21 *
- Never did any bird flying back to a plundered nest, which it had left brimful of chirping young ones, express more complete despair, in its anguished cries and flutterings, than she by her single 'Oh!' and the change that transfigured her late happy countenance.†
Chpt 21
Definition:
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(plunder) to steal -- often after conquering the location with the goods
or:
the goods stolen