inning

1. (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.Examples: "It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch."

2. (softball) A similar period of play.Examples: "We batted around in our half of the inning."

3. (billiards) A player (or team)'s turn at the table to make shots until ended by a miss or a foul.

4. (obsolete) The gathering of a crop; harvesting.Examples: "[…] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […]"

5. (obsolete) Lands recovered from the sea.Examples: "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."