Also 8 lobba. A name used in Shetland and Orkney for coarse grass or sedge (see quots.). Also attrib.
c. 1794. T. Johnston in Shirreff, Agric. Surv. Shetld. (1814), App. 46. On the berry heather and lobba pastures they [sheep] are at their prime from five to seven years old.
1795. G. Low, in Statist. Acc. Scot., XIV. 316. [The hills] are covered with heath, and what we call lubba, a sort of grass which feeds our cattle in the summer time; it generally consists of different species of carices, plain bent, and other moor grasses.
1822. S. Hibbert, Descr. Shetl. Isl., III. 435. Lubba comprises those common productions of the hills which are found where heath is absent.
