Definition of "upblow" in English

verb

1. (transitive, archaic) To inflate.

   • 1525, uncredited translator, The noble experyence of the vertuous handy warke of surgeri by Brunschwig, Hieronymus, London, Chapter 48 “Of the wounde in the brest,” […] the pacyent hath heuynes and vpblowynge in the syde […]

2. (transitive, archaic) To explode, blow up.

   • 1666, anonymous, Song 37, in Thomas Davidson, Cantus, songs and Fancies, to three, four, or five parts, Aberdeen, Ingyniers in the trench earth, earth uprearing, Gun-powder in the mynes, Pagans upblowing.

3. (ambitransitive, archaic) To blow in an upward direction.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, part 5, in Lyrical Ballads, London: J. & A. Arch, p. 28, The helmsman steerd, the ship mov’d on; Yet never a breeze up-blew;
   • 1915, Vance Thompson, “Swift Reversal to Barbarism” in Horrors and Atrocities of the Great War, L.T. Myers, p. 105, A blazing August sun; a road of pebbles and stinging, upblown dust.