heir-loom

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

HEIR-LOOM, noun are-loom. Any furniture, movable, or personal chattel, which by law descends to the heir with the house or freehold; as tables, cupboards, bedsteads, etc.
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