upblowEtymologyFrom Middle English upblowen, equivalent to up- + blow.verbTo 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 […]”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.”To blow in an upward direction.“The watry Southwinde from the seabord coste Vpblowing, doth disperse the vapour lo’ste,”