Inning

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Ingathering; harvesting.

II. Inning ·noun Lands recovered from the sea.

III. Inning ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Inn.

IV. 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.