lob : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lob	by the DICT Development Group
8 results for lob
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
lob n an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc 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"
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. [bd] Country lobs.[b8] --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\, v. t. (Mining) See {Cob}, v. t.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lob \Lob\, n. [Dan. lubbe.] (Zo[94]l.) The European pollock.
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[94]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[94]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.