inrunning

From in- +‎ running.

inrunning (not comparable)

1. Running or flowing inward.
   • 1890, William James, The Principles of Psychology, Chapter 2:

     an inrunning current has at last become enabled to flow out by its old path again

   • 1917, John Fleming Wilson, The Ex-Husband:

     “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.

inrunning (plural inrunnings)

1. (archaic) The act or the place of entrance
2. an inlet.
   • 1859, Alfred Tennyson, “Elaine”, in Idylls of the King, London: Edward Moxon & Co., , →OCLC, page 220:

     And Lancelot answer'd nothing, but he went, / And at the inrunning of a little brook / Sat by the river in a cove

   • 1917, Frederick Schiller Faust, The Gambler and the Stake:

     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.

• “inrunning”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• running in