Drinking

·noun An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.

II. Drinking ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Drink.

III. Drinking ·noun The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.

IV. Drinking ·noun The act of one who drinks; the act of Imbibing.

drinking
a refreshment between meals, used by ploughmen, who eat a bit of bread and cheese and drink some bee...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
By-drinking
·noun A drinking between meals. ...

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