lob

Noun · Verb

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Noun (2)

  1. an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
  2. the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc

Verb (1)

  1. propel in a high arc“lob the tennis ball”
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zool.) (a) A marine gadoid food fish of Europe (Pollachius virens). Called also greenfish, greenling, lait, leet, lob, lythe, and whiting pollack. (b) The American pollock; the coalfish. [1913 Webster]
Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See Pollack.] (Zool.) A marine gadoid fish (Pollachius carbonarius), native both of the European and American coasts. It is allied to the cod, and like it is salted and dried. In England it is called coalfish, lob, podley, podling, pollack, etc. [1913 Webster]
Lob \Lob\ (l[o^]b), n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf. Looby, Lubber.]

1.A dull, heavy person. " Country lobs." --Gauden. [1913 Webster]

2.Something thick and heavy. [1913 Webster]

Lob \Lob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Lobbed (l[o^]bd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lobbing.]

2.To let fall heavily or lazily. [1913 Webster]

And their poor jades Lob down their heads.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory; as, to lob a grenade at the enemy. [PJC]

To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air. [1913 Webster]

Lob \Lob\, v. t. (Mining) See Cob, v. t. [1913 Webster]
Lob \Lob\, n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zool.) The European pollock. [1913 Webster]
Lob \Lob\, n. The act of lobbing; specif., an (often gentle) stroke which sends a ball up into the air, as in tennis to avoid a player at the net. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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