To be off in haste.
1825. Yah! how [the Indians] pulled foot, when they seed us commin’. Most off the handle, some o’ the tribe, I guess.—John Neal, ‘Brother Jonathan,’ i. 107
1831. Jerry darted out of the door, and pulled foot for home, like a streak of lightning.—Seba Smith (‘Major Downing’), ‘My Thirty Years Out of the Senate,’ p. 142 (1860).
1834. I dropt the book and streaked it out of school, and pulled foot for home as fast as I could go, and I never showed my head in school again from that day to this.—Id., p. 29.
1837. He had pulled foot for Baltimore, and sold the rest of his tooth powder.—Phila. Public Ledger, March 6.
