inning

Meanings

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.
2. A similar period of play.
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.
5. The gathering of a crop; harvesting.
6. Lands recovered from the sea.

1. present participle and gerund of inn

Etymology

Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.