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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of inn.

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Examples

  • In 1622 Sir Henry Appleton, the owner of the marsh, agreed to give one-third of it to Joas Croppenburg, a Dutchman skilled in the making of dikes, if he "inned" the marsh.

    The Naturalist on the Thames 1882

  • Deputies were initially unable to handcuff Gonzales, but finally subdued him with two shocks from a stun gun as they p;inned him on the judge's conference table, the Sun-Sentinel reports.

    Ex-Marine charged with attacking wife during divorce hearing 2011

  • Hours to the Tide, according as the Barley is in body or in dryness; for that which comes off Clays, or has been wash'd and damag'd by Rains, requires less time than the dryer Grain that was inned well and grew on

    The London and Country Brewer Anonymous

  • Aprill, till the time that new corne was inned: and what prouision soeuer was laid vp in garners, cellers and storehouses, for the kings necessarie vses, he caused the same to be imploied towards the reléefe of religious houses, and poore people.

    Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (5 of 12) Henrie the Second Raphael Holinshed

  • Walland and Dunge and Romney, once the sea's bed, now lately inned for man and his small dwellings, his keepings and his cares, perhaps one day to return to the same deep from which it had come.

    Joanna Godden Sheila Kaye-Smith 1921

  • Well, then, I fell a thinkin ', and then I sairched my pockets, and arter a piece found two green cartridges of number three, as Archer gave me in the Spring, so I drawed out the small shot, and inned with these, and put fresh caps on to be sarten.

    Warwick Woodlands Things as they Were There Twenty Years Ago Henry William Herbert 1832

  • Kind of odd, they were inned when they wanted to be out.

    msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines 2011

  • Could have sold the couple of gas bottles we used trying to cook it to by a couple of boxes of inned/frozen ...

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Could have sold the couple of gas bottles we used trying to cook it to by a couple of boxes of inned/frozen ...

    Army Rumour Service 2010

  • Could have sold the couple of gas bottles we used trying to cook it to by a couple of boxes of inned/frozen ...

    Army Rumour Service 2010

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