1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 160 Samuel Long is a slow bowler, George Simmons a fast one, and the change from Long's lobbing to Simmons's fast balls posed them completely.

1838 T. Thomson Chem. Org. Bodies 1019 The distillers make the specific gravity of their wort as high as from 1·084 to 1·110..by lobbing, that is, by preparing a strong infusion of the flour of malt, or of barley, and malt, and hot water, and adding this almost saturated solution to the wort, till it has acquired the requisite strength.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field ix. 179 The old-fashioned under-hand lobbing.

1865 Irish Times 18 Sept. A number of car drivers were prosecuted for ‘lobbing’.

1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Lobbing (Metallurgy), breaking blocks of ore into pieces with the hammer, for assortment as to quality with such ores as copper, and for more effectual treatment in the preparatory roasting or calcining processes.

1889 W. M. Brownlee Lawn-tennis 140 Lobbing has caused more fits of temper than any stroke in the game.

1889 W. M. Brownlee Lawn-tennis 140 I had omitted to give him full credit for his lobbing powers.

1840 E. E. Napier Scenes & Sports Foreign Lands I. ii. 26 The gaunt wolf, whom thou hast before now forced to drop his long lobbing pace, and put his best foot foremost.

1851 J. Pycroft Cricket Field xi. 223 A lobbing bowler, with the longstop, and four men in all on the On side, will shorten the innings of many a reputed fine hitter.

1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 I. xvii. 268 Some wounds from lobbing round-shot.

1891 R. Weir in R. Weir et al. Riding (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iv. 105 There are..plenty of horses that from bad riding get into a loose lobbing canter behind the hand.