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Lob   Listen
verb
Lob  v. t.  (past & past part. lobbed; pres. part. lobbing)  
1.
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.
To lob a ball (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.





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"Lob" Quotes from Famous Books



... on Reindeer Lake, close to the shore, there is a towering "lob-stick tree"—which is a tall spruce or cedar lopped of all its branches to the very crest, which is trimmed in the form of a plume. A tree thus shriven and trimmed is the Cree cenotaph to one held in almost spiritual reverence, and the tree far up on Reindeer ...
— Back to God's Country and Other Stories • James Oliver Curwood
... want to have the reputation of being skilful anglers, employ their game-keepers to find the Kippers (Scottice Kelts) or spawned fish in the pools, which is a very easy matter in low water, and dropping a hook baited with a lob worm before their noses, it is greedily taken, and the poor fish (which are unfit for food) are caught. It is then trumpeted forth to the angling world that Mr. A. B. has had splendid sport—he has caught a dozen Salmon with the rod in a single day, meaning it to be ...
— Essays in Natural History and Agriculture • Thomas Garnett
... vor und nach der Predigt finden wir keine Spur, vielmehr das sichere Gegentheil.... Ums Jahr 1589 finden wir zuerst das sogenannte Lob und Dankopfer und die daran gehaengten Fuerbitten fuer die Obrigkeit, und die uebrigen christlichen Staende.... Erst nach der Mitte des siebzehnten Jahrhunderts ... suchte man auch im Liturgischen die Willkuer der einzelnen in engere Schraenken zuruckzufuehren" ...
— The Scottish Reformation - Its Epochs, Episodes, Leaders, and Distinctive Characteristics • Alexander F. Mitchell
... left hand, and crept out to him. When near on top of him, I gripped him round the nape of the neck, digging my fingers in his flabby throat, and he went slimy with fright like a great, fat lob-worm. I swooped down on him with my full weight, and pinned him to the floor. His big mouth opened as he fought for breath, and I clapped the Virgil hard and far into it, tying it tight in with my ...
— The Yeoman Adventurer • George W. Gough


Words linked to "Lob" :   propulsion, return


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