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Inning n.

Ingathering; harvesting. (Obs.)

The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc., each period during which both teams get one turn each at bat; as, in baseball there are nine innings to a complete game; often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.

pl. Lands recovered from the sea.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Inning" Quotes from Famous Books

... had was a fine physique and a mouthful of slippery elm. Almost before the umpires and managers had ceased to chat over the rules, the Macks had lumped three hits, and with a wild heave by Artie Fletcher had scored three runs, which was one more than the Giants got all day. In the next inning some more hammering gave another pair of markers. Then Tesreau settled down and went along fairly well until the seventh. The Athletics had another rush of hits to the outfield in this inning and Otis Crandall came in to finish up the contest, or scandal, whichever you choose ...

— Practical English Composition: Book II. - For the Second Year of the High School • Edwin L. Miller

... whispered warmly as he went by with Barney. "I knew you were going to win out, though it might be an extra-inning game!" ...

— Children of the Whirlwind • Leroy Scott

... your inning, sure," Claude replied. "I'm not much better than a hired hand. Well, now, see here, I'm going to make a strike one of these days, and then-look out for me! You don't know but what I've invested in a gold mine. I may be a Dutch lord in disguise. ...

— Main-Travelled Roads • Hamlin Garland

... sector, "but that we have driven them back with heavy losses." Then he resumed his interrupted dinner as unconcernedly as though he had been called to the telephone to be told that the Braves had defeated the Pirates in the ninth inning. ...

— Italy at War and the Allies in the West • E. Alexander Powell

Words linked to "Inning" : top, top of the inning, division, part, bottom of the inning, frame