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inning, vbl. n.|ˈɪnɪŋ|
Also 6–7 ining.
[f. in v., or inn v. + -ing1.]
I. From in v.
†1. A putting or getting in; what is put or got in; contents; income. Only OE. Obs.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxii. §2 Se heofon is betera..and fæᵹerra ðonne eall his innung buton monnum anum. 978in Kemble Cod. Dipl. III. 138 Ðes tunes cyping and seo innung ðara portᵹerihta gange into ðere halᵹan stowe.
2. a. The action of taking in, inclosing, etc.; esp. the reclaiming of marsh or flooded land.
c1530in Gutch Coll. Cur. II. 343 Item deliverid..for the Innyng of the said marshe of Wulwiche..cl. 1543–4Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 9 The recoueringe inclosinge and inninge of..Wappinge marshe. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1824) 94 For inning and safety of their Marshes and Marsh grounds. 1769De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. I. 186 Rye-Harbour..being..by the Inning of the Channel and waste Lands..in Danger of being utterly lost. 1852Humber Conserv. Act 2038 (15 & 16 Vict. c. cxxx. §35) Such inning, gaining, or Reclamation.
b. pl. Lands taken in or reclaimed.
1706Phillips, Innings, Lands recovered from the Sea, by draining and banking. 1880Archæol. Cantiana XIII. 189 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.
3. The action of getting in, esp. of crops; ingathering, harvesting.
1522MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., For caryage & innyng of the seid vij acres [of hay]. 1530Palsgr. 539/1 He hath ered his lande, God sende hym good innyng. 1662W. Gurnall Chr. in Arm. Verse 17 vii. §2. 56 The joy of the Husbandman, at the happy inning of his Corn. 1710D. Hilman Tusser Rediv. (1744) 104 (T.) Every one that did any thing towards the inning must now have some reward.
4. a. In Cricket, Baseball, and similar games (in Great Britain always in pl. form innings, whether in sing. or pl. sense): That portion of the game played by either side while ‘in’ or at the bat: cf. in adv. 6 d. In Cricket also used of the play of, or score of runs made by, any one batsman during his turn. to follow their innings (said of one side at cricket) = to follow on: see follow v. 19 d.
1735in H. T. Waghorn Cricket Scores (1899) 10 London..got 67 notches the first innings. 1746in ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. (1850) 80 1st Innings. England. 2nd Innings. 1755Game at Cricket 7 The Bowler shall change [wickets] but once in the same innings. 1770J. Love Cricket 21 Awakened Eccho speaks the Innings o'er, And forty Notches deep indent the Score. 1810Sporting Mag. XXXVI. 194 Won by the former by sixty-two runs at one innings. 1849Laws of Cricket c. 46 in ‘Bat’ Cricketer's Man. 59 The players who go in second shall follow their innings, if they have obtained one hundred runs less than their antagonists. 1856Spirit of Times 6 Dec. 229/1 After the first inning is played, the turn commences at the player who stands next to the one on the list who lost the third hand. 1891W. G. Grace Cricket 216 On five occasions Oxford has won by an innings, whilst Cambridge has done the same thing thrice. 1895Nebraska State Jrnl. 23 June, In the seventh inning Gragg hit for three bases... In the fourth inning Haller got a base on balls. 1955Times 9 May 15/2 Afterwards he played the sort of innings that not surprisingly drives some spectators to distraction. 1968Washington Post 4 July C1/7 The righthanded sinkerballer faced his greatest challenge in the sixth inning.
b. transf. (in Great Britain always in pl.) The time during which a person, party, principle, etc. is in possession or in power; a term of, or opportunity for, activity of any kind; a turn.
1836Dickens Pickw. (1837) xxiii. 238 It's my innings now, gov'rnor, and as soon as I catches hold o' this here Trotter, I'll have a good 'un. 1855Thackeray Newcomes II. xi. 107 The Marquis not being present, the Baron took his innings. 1870M. Bridgman R. Lynne I. vi. 81 She's had remarkably good innings, and persons can't expect to live for ever. 1878W. R. Greg in 19th Cent. Sept. 395 The new ideas of ‘peace, retrenchment and reform’ got their innings, and..have ruled the national policy from 1830 till 1875. 1885N.Y. Mirror 23 May 7/3 An Inning for the Lyceum Pupils. 1897W. H. Thornton Reminisc. W.-Co. Clergyman vii. 236 Fortunately I have had most of my innings in happier days.
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5. The action of the verb inn; lodging, housing; concr. a lodging, dwelling-place.
a1050Liber Scintill. ii. (1889) 11 On ᵹeþances his wununge innunge he ᵹearwað criste. 1589Fleming Virg. Georg. iii. 48 The cattell..goes into deserts large Without all inning (housing, fense, shroud, houell, or such like). |