Energetically at work.
1850. [This] will be sufficient to keep all the elements of agitation in full blast at the North.Mr. Bell of Tennessee, U.S. Senate, July 5: Cong. Globe, p. 1096, Appendix.
1858. We found an old man blowing the bellows of the organ, which was in full blast in the church.Hawthorne, Fr. and It. Journals, ii. 143. (N.E.D.)