ablast adjective2 •Blasting, making a loud noise.[…] their real metier is the giddy tenth-rate circus, ablast with drums and the roaring of wild beasts, the snuffling of freaks, and the shrieking mirth of the vulgar. — 1907 •Burning intensely; (of a furnace) subject to a continuous blast of hot air. (of fire)So the next golden or profitable rule of the system soon suggested itself, viz. while you kept literary fire all ablast and crackling, to have a number of irons heating in it. — 1882
