inning

noun6

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.

   • It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.
2. •
   A similar period of play.

   • We batted around in our half of the inning.
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.

   • We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.
5. •
   (no longer used) The gathering of a crop; harvesting.

   • […] for the mowing, reaping, shering, getting or inning of corne, […] — 1563
6. •
   (no longer used) Lands recovered from the sea.

   • 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. — 1880