Inning

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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