1824. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. 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. 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. [see LOB v. 6].
1889. W. M. Brownlee, Lawn-Tennis, 140. Lobbing has caused more fits of temper than any stroke in the game. Ibid. I had omitted to give him full credit for his lobbing powers.
