To decamp.

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1824.  

        On a table some types stood alone;
I thought I’d see if they’d stick;
I touched them;—they all tumbled down,
And then I cleared out mighty quick.
Woodstock (Vt.) Observer, Feb. 24: from the N.H. Patriot.    

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1824.  [They] persecuted me so far, that I was compelled to clear out.—The Microscope (Albany), May 29.

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1825.  On the very night before he “cleared out,” in a hurricane; as the Marble-Head fishermen do, when they have made a league with Old Scratch; he shot a young catamount, close by the preacher’s door.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 254.

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1825.  Like many a hero before him, he “cleared out.”—Id., ii. 151. (N.E.D.)

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