1851–61. H. Mayhew, London Lab., i. p. 234. Some classes of
patterers, I may here observe, work in schools or mobs of two,
three, or four.
1859. Matsell, Vocabulum, s.v. Mobs. A number of thieves working
together.
3. (Australian).—A number of horses, or cattle; part of a flock of
sheep: a flock is the total number of fleeces tended by one shepherd;
any portion of it being a mob.
1885. Mrs. Campbell Praed, The Head Station, p. 2. I wonder whether
there will be a mob of fat cattle ready for the butcher next month.