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8 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lob \Lob\, n. [W. llob an unwieldy lump, a dull fellow, a blockhead. Cf {Looby}, {Lubber}.] 1. A dull, heavy person. `` Country lobs.'' --Gauden. 2. Something thick and heavy. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lob \Lob\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Lobbed}; p. pr & vb n. {Lobbing}.] To let fall heavily or lazily. And their poor jades Lob down their heads. --Shak. {To lob a ball} (Lawn Tennis), to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lob \Lob\, n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zo["o]l.) The European pollock. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lob \Lob\, v. t. (Mining) See {Cob}, v. t. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pollack \Pol"lack\, n. [Cf. G. & D. pollack, and Gael. pollag a little pool, a sort of fish.] (Zo["o]l.) 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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Pollock \Pol"lock\, n. [See {Pollack}.] (Zo["o]l.) 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: lob n 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 v : propel in a high arc; "lob the tennis ball"
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