Meanings
- not comparableRunning or flowing inward.
an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again
1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Chapter 21 more example
“Long Wharf,” said Ericsson, jamming the wheel over as the tug churned past the outside dolphins, and putting the engines ahead. He clipped open a speaking-tube and conversed briefly with invisible authority below. The Wonder squatted down duckwise, stuck her battered nose up and scuttered across the course of the inrunning stream of the tide at top speed.
1917, John Fleming Wilson, The Ex-Husband
plural inrunnings
- archaicThe act or the place of entrance
- an inlet.
And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove
1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, page 2201 more example
On either side the woodland moved slowly back. The morning mist had not yet vanished, but floated against the trees in silver drifts, and veiled every inrunning of the shores with bright mystery.
1917, Frederick Schiller Faust, The Gambler and the Stake
Origin
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