meaning of inning
1. Ingathering; harvesting.
2. The state or turn of being in; specifically, in cricket, baseball, etc. ,the turn or time of a player or of a side at the bat; -- often in the pl. Hence: The turn or time of a person, or a party, in power; as, the Whigs went out, and the Democrats had their innings.
3. Lands recovered from the sea.
4. of Inn
5. a period of play in baseball during which each team has a turn at bat