inning

[ in-ing ]
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noun
  1. Baseball. a division of a game during which each team has an opportunity to score until three outs have been made against it.

  2. a similar opportunity to score in certain other games, as horseshoes.

  1. an opportunity for activity; a turn: Now the opposition will have its inning.

  2. innings, (used with a singular verb)

    • Cricket. a unit of play in which each team has a turn at bat, the turn of a team ending after ten players are put out or when the team declares.

    • land reclaimed, especially from the sea.

  3. the act of reclaiming marshy or flooded land.

  4. enclosure, as of wasteland.

  5. the gathering in of crops.

Origin of inning

1
before 900; Middle English inninge,Old English innung a getting in, equivalent to inn(ian) to go in + -ung-ing1

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inning

/ (ˈɪnɪŋ) /


noun
  1. baseball a division of the game consisting of a turn at bat and a turn in the field for each side

  2. archaic the reclamation of land from the sea

Origin of inning

1
Old English innung a going in, from innian to go in

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