inning

Meanings

Noun

  • A period of play in which members of a visiting baseball team attempt to hit a baseball pitched by the opposing home team until three players are called out, followed by a similar attempt by members of the home baseball team against the visiting team's pitching. There are nine or more innings in a regulation baseball game.
  • A similar period of play.
  • A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
  • A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
  • The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
  • Lands recovered from the sea.

Verb

  • Present participle of inn

Origin

  • , mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.

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