lob

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To hit, throw, or propel in a high arc.
• intransitive verb To hit a ball in a high arc.
• intransitive verb To move heavily or clumsily.
• noun A ball hit, thrown, or propelled in a high arc.
• noun Slang A clumsy dull person; a lout.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To throw (a lump or ball, etc.); toss gently or with a slow movement; specifically, in lawn-tennis, to strike (the ball) over the head of one's opponent into the back part of the court.
• To kick.
• To be tossed with a slow movement, as a cricket-ball or a shot.
• To hang down; drop or droop.
• To hang wearily or languidly; allow to drop or droop.
• In milling, to break (ore, etc.) into pieces with a hammer for sorting.
• noun A dull, sluggish person; a lout.
• noun The last person in a race.
• noun Something thick and lumpish; a lump.
• noun A thick, soft mixture. See the quotation, and compare loblolly.
• noun A lobworm.
• noun The pollack.
• noun The coalfish.
• noun [⟨ lob, verb] In cricket, a low slow ball.
• noun In lawn-tennis, a play by which one of the contestants knocks the ball over the head of his opponent into the back part of the court.
• noun Lob Lie-by-the-fire—the Lubber-flend, as Milton calls him—is a rough kind of Brownie or House Elf, supposed to haunt some north-country homesteads, where he does the work of the farm-labourers, for no grander wages than “—to earn his cream-bowl duly set.”

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb (Mining) See cob, v. t.
• noun (Zoöl.) The European pollock.
• noun The act of lobbing
• transitive verb To let fall heavily or lazily.
• transitive verb to propel (relatively slowly) in a high arcing trajectory.
• transitive verb (Lawn Tennis) to strike a ball so as to send it up into the air.
• noun A dull, heavy person.
• noun Something thick and heavy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun a lump
• noun obsolete a country bumpkin, clown
• noun A fish, the European pollock.
• verb To throw or hit a ball into the air in a high arch.
• verb colloquial To throw.
• verb colloquial To put, place
• verb sports To hit, kick, or throw a ball over another player in a game.
• noun A pass or stroke which arches high into the air.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun an easy return of a tennis ball in a high arc
• noun the act of propelling something (as a ball or shell etc.) in a high arc
• verb propel in a high arc