Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. transported as a convict [? ‘blown away’ (across the sea) or see bellowser n. (2)].

1842		Colonial Times (Hobart) 26 Apr. 3/2: [T]he prisoner said, in case he got ‘turned up’ for Smith’s robbery, he might get ‘bellowsed’ for the soldier that they ‘ramped’.
1848		Bell’s Life in Sydney 26 Feb. 1/4: That ere Bloke was nigh Bellussing us.
1859, 1860		Hotten Dict. of Modern Sl. etc.
1865		Leaves from Diary of Celebrated Burglar 48/1: There’s someone ‘on’ [...] and we’ll all be ‘pinched’ and bellowsed over this devilish foolish fighting affair.
1870		Hotten Sl. Dict.
1871–82		B.M. Carew Life and Adventures.
1873		Sl. Dict.

2. out of breath [bellows n. (1)].

1856		Atlanta Medical and Surgical Jrnl Aug. 708: Why, then, should her enlightened friends and vindicators fear the flippant philippics of certain penny politicians, whose bellowsed sides yet heave in the bootless chase for fame.
1866		J. Greenwood Little Ragamuffin 268: It’s werry fine to say, ‘What’s the use o’ standin’ still,’ when a feller’s fairly bellust off his legs.