INNING

inning, frame

(noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology 1

Noun

inning (plural innings)

(baseball) 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.

(softball) A similar period of play.

(billiards) 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.

(obsolete) The gathering of a crop; harvesting.

(obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.

Etymology 2

Verb

inning

present participle of inn

Source: Wiktionary

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In"ning, n. Etym: [AS. innung, fr. in in, prep. & adv.]

1. Ingathering; harvesting. [Obs.] Holland.

2. The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc.,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- 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.

3. pl.

Definition: Lands recovered from the sea. Ainsworth.

INN

Inn, n. Etym: [AS. in,inn, house, chamber, inn, from AS. in in; akin to Icel. inni house. See In.]

1. A place of shelter; hence, dwelling; habitation; residence; abode. [Obs.] Chaucer. Therefore with me ye may take up your inn For this same night. Spenser.

2. A house for the lodging and entertainment of travelers or wayfarers; a tavern; a public house; a hotel.

Note: As distinguished from a private boarding house, an inn is a house for the entertainment of all travelers of good conduct and means of payment,as guests for a brief period,not as lodgers or boarders by contract. The miserable fare and miserable lodgment of a provincial inn. W. Irving.

3. The town residence of a nobleman or distinguished person; as, Leicester Inn. [Eng.]

4. One of the colleges (societies or buildings) in London, for students of the law barristers; as, the Inns of Court; the Inns of Chancery; Serjeants' Inns. Inns of chancery (Eng.), colleges in which young students formerly began their law studies, now occupied chiefly by attorneys, solicitors, etc.

– Inns of court (Eng.), the four societies of "students and practicers of the law of England" which in London exercise the exclusive right of admitting persons to practice at the bar; also, the buildings in which the law students and barristers have their chambers. They are the Inner Temple, the Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn, and Gray's Inn.

Inn, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inned; p. pr. & vb. n. Inning.]

Definition: To take lodging; to lodge. [R.] Addison.

Inn, v. t.

1. To house; to lodge. [Obs.] When he had brought them into his city And inned them, everich at his degree. Chaucer.

2. To get in; to in. See In, v. t.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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