To walk or crawl up the wall; to be scored up at a public-nouse. Wall-eyed, having an eye with little or no sight, all white like a plaistered wall.
Definition taken from The 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, originally by Francis Grose.
Walking Up Against the Wall * To WapNathan Bailey's 1736 Dictionary of canting and thieving slang
John S. Farmer's collection of canting songs and slang rhymes