Lob
Lob (lob) , noun
[Welsh llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Compare Looby, Lubber.]
1.
A dull, heavy person.
Country lobs.
2.
Something thick and heavy.
Lob (lobd) , transitive verb
2.
To let fall heavily or lazily.
And their poor jades
Lob down their heads.
2.
to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy.
Collocations (1)
To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis) , to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.
Lob , transitive verb
(Mining) See Cob, transitive verb
Lob , noun
[Danish lubbe.]
(Zoology) The European pollock.
Lob , noun
The act of lobbing;
an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net.