Definitions
(baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat
Word origin
Back-formation from innings, mistaken to be plural of the time period, not the entries of the batters/batsmen.
Used in a sentence
“It is a baseball tradition to sing "Take Me Out To the Ball Game" during the seventh inning stretch.”
“We batted around in our half of the inning.”
“We are in just the second inning of our quest to enter this new market.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Baseball turn”6 letters
02“Baseball frame”6 letters
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