To go out, to go forth.
1843. You know my wife’s father had considerable land on the Blue Fox River in Ohio; so as we two wanted a leetle more elbow room, I says one day to Nancy, “Nancy,” says I, “I dad ’spose we put out and live there.”—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 172 (Bartlett).
1849. La Bonté picked up three excellent mules for a mere song, with their accompanying pack-saddles, apishamores, and lariats, and the next day, with Luke, “put out” for the Platte.—G. F. Ruxton, ‘Life in the Far West,’ p. 74.
