Definition of: inning

(in′ing) noun
1. The period during which a party or person is in power, control, or action.
2. In baseball and other games, a turn at the bat; the period during which one side is at the bat, or the period when each side takes one turn at the bat.
3. plural In cricket, the play of, or score made by, either side while batting or by any one batsman during his turn: construed in the singular.
4. Reclamation (of marsh or swamp land).
5. plural Lands reclaimed from the sea.
6. An ingathering, as of grain into a barn; a harvest. [OE innung, gerund of innian get it, put in]