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inning /inˈing/ noun- Ingathering, esp of crops
- A turn at batting for both teams in baseball, etc
- (in pl) lands recovered from the sea
ORIGIN: in1 or inn innˈings singular noun - A team's or individual batsman's turn at batting in cricket, etc
- Hence, the time during which a person or a party is in possession of anything, a spell or turn
a good innings (informal) A long life inn /in/ noun- A small hotel open to the public for food, drink and accommodation
- A hotel
- Loosely, a public house
- (also (Spenser) in; often in pl) a dwelling-place, abode (obsolete)
transitive verb and intransitive verb (archaic)To lodge, put up ORIGIN: OE inn an inn, house, from in, inn within (adv), from the prep in in innˈkeeper noun A person in charge of an inn inn sign noun A painted or otherwise decorated panel outside an inn, illustrating its name innˈyard noun The courtyard round which an old-fashioned inn was built Inns of Court - The buildings of four voluntary societies that have the exclusive right of calling to the English bar (Inner Temple, Middle Temple, Lincoln's Inn and Gray's Inn)
- Hence, the societies themselves
- The Inns of Chancery were the buildings of minor societies, residences of junior students of law
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