Personal luggage, baggage of travellers, goods, effects. A very common word throughout the Southern and Western States. It is never heard in this sense in New England.
When we got loaded up, I was afraid old Bosen was going to have more'n his match to pull us, they'd put in so much plunder. Two trunks, band-boxes, &c.--Maj. Jones's Courtship, p. 165.
Help yourself; stranger, added the landlord, while I tote your plunder into the other room.--Hoffman, Winter in the West, Let. 33.