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 […]
(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.
(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.