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put in verb phrase To embark, start, go. [DARE labels this usage “chiefly South, South Midland”]

1834 Crockett Narrative 156 I put in, and waded on till I come to the channel, where I crossed that on a high log. 1926 Hunnicutt Twenty Years 35 About that time Old Boney put in with her on the same track. 1939 Hall Coll (Nine Mile TN) The dogs put in after him [=a bear] again, bayed him around there. 1985 Irwin Alex Stewart 98 I put in and made me another one, and that’s how I got started in the cooper trade. Ibid. 168 I told him what kind of timber to cut, and how big to get it, and he put right in and cut it and snaked it down close to the house seat.