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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.

The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

☞ Drinking is used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound; as, a drinking song, drinking cup, drinking glass, drinking house, etc.

Drinking horn

a drinking vessel made of a horn.

ppr.

Swallowing liquor; sucking in; absorbing.

Noun.

The act of swallowing liquors, or of absorbing.

The practice of drinking to excess. We say, a man is given to drinking.

drinking

drinking ‎(plural drinkings)

An act or session by which drink is consumed, especially alcoholic beverages.
- 1853, Susan Bogert Warner, The wide, wide world (page 372)
  At home there were other studies and much reading; many tea drinkings on the lawn, and even breakfastings, which she thought pleasanter still.