Meaning of Inning | Babel Free

Definitions

1. 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.
2. A similar period of play.
3. A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.
4. A chance or opportunity to perform some deed or act.
5. The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
   obsolete
6. Lands recovered from the sea.
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.”

“We batted around in our half of the inning.”

“We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.”

“[…] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]”

“One of the earliest ‘innings’ of Walland Marsh, after the Norman Conquest,‥has been ever since called Becket's Innings, as this Archbishop has the credit of promoting it.”

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