noun ingathering; harvesting.
2. inning ·noun lands recovered from the sea.
3. inning ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of inn.
4. inning ·noun 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.