Definition of "lob"

In the months leading up to the election, government representatives took up a cybercrime case against Thanathorn for criticising the government on a Facebook Live video... They also lobbed more legal cases at his party for allegedly spreading false information.

2019 April 6, Caleb Quinley, “Thailand: Anti-military party leader faces sedition charges”, in Al Jazeera‎, Doha: Al Jazeera, retrieved 2019-04-06

I'm sure the Brunel-designed stone-built structure would have had a hatstand for his trademark stovepipe. I can picture him rocking up there of a morning and lobbing it nonchalantly onto the hatstand.

2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chippenham (1841)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 57

Wigan took the lead when Hugo Rodallega lobbed David Stockdale from close range having earlier headed against the post.

2011 January 15, Nabil Hassan, “Wigan 1 - 1 Fulham”, in BBC‎

And their poor jades / Lob down their heads.

1599, William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene ii]

Peter Lovenkrands went close for the Magpies, hitting the bar with a fine lob after he had been played in by the excellent Jose Enrique on the left.

2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC‎

And, moreover, I had no sooner set my eyes on the keys, than I remembered where there was a lob of money lying in Purcell's safe, that I —

1875, M.L. Kenny, The fortunes of Maurice Cronin‎, page 126

Farewell, thou lob of spirits; I'll be gone: Our queen and all her elves come here anon.

1594, William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream, act II scene I

THE country lob trudged home very much concerned and thoughtful, you may swear; insomuch that his good woman, seeing him thus look moping, weened that something had been stolen from him at market […]

1694, Peter Anthony Motteux, The Fourth Book, translation of original by Rabelais, Chapter XLVII