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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
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Drinking, Drynking, vbl. n. Also: drynkynge, -yn(e, drinkyn, -kin, -kkine, dreinking. [ME. drynkynge, drinkinge (c 1200).]

1. Partaking of, or indulging in, drink. 1456 Hay II. 97/12.
Abstene thé fra grete excesse of drinking c1460 Consail Wys Man 188.
Tak not deiyt in … Wntymous eting na drynkynge c1475 Wall. iv. 386.
Inglismen to drynkyn wald him call a1500 Seven S. 1623.
He … maid a well for thair drinkyn 1533 Gau 16/15.
Thay that fleis noth … inordinat eiting and drinkkine 1533 Boece ix. iv. 294.
Thai wald … spend twa dayis or thre at bankettis and drynking 1581 Acts III. 211/1.
Playing or dreinking in tyme of sermone 1587 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 502.
Sindrie craftis childer … beand furth … vnder clwd of nicht, in drynking and harletrie

2. attrib. Suitable or used for, or in connexion with, drinking, as drinking beir, boord, can, cap, claith, etc. 1540 Acta Conc. & Sess. MS. XIV. 66 b.
lvj barrellis of drinkin beir 1576 Orkney Oppress. 43.
Quhatever he was that had ony dreinking beir 1622-6 Bisset II. 209/27.
Sex barrellis of Inglis drinking beir makis ane tun 1689 Leven & Melv. P. 131.
Ane imposition [of] a plack upon the pynt of ale and drinking bear — 1618 Edinb. Test. L. 41.
Fyve drinking beir glasis 1649 Ib. LXIV. 271 b.
Certane rods hinging about the hall and vther drinking boords — 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 344.
For five drinking cannis to the schip 1512 Ib. IV. 298.
Thre dussone drinkyne kannis 1613 Edinb. Test. XLVII. 70 b.
Ane drinking can — 1630 Bamff Chart. 223.
Sewin drinking caps — 1623 Edinb. Test. LI. 328 b.
Thrie drinking claithes 1627 Ib. LIV. 54 b.
Ane drinking holane claith 1648 Ib. LXIV. 52.
Thrie mouth cloaths or drinking cloaths — 1603 Montgomery Mem. II. 246.
Two drinkin glascis, on of christell 1630 Bamff Chart. 222.
Twa cup glasses of christall, twa uther drinking glasses 1641 Edinb. Test. LIX. 269.
Drinking glasis … and desert glasis — 1574 Misc. Maitl. C. I. 113.
The … bailleis and counsall to put ordour to sic commone drinking and dansing housis fra aucht or nyne houris at ewin past 1627 Brechin Test. IV. 296 b.
Of siluer vark, tua drinkin peices 1571 Misc. Bann. C. III. 139.
Ane silver bassie and lawer, … ane drinking pott — 1653 Edinb. Test. LXVII. 44 b.
Twa drinking quaiches and ane laime porringer Ib. 146.
Ane drinking quach worth tuelffe s. 1696 Ib. LXXX. 170.
Tuo drinking queches — 1623 Orkney & Zetl. Test. I. 93.
Four drinking servietis 1582 Edinb. B. Rec. IV. 244.
To pay … for making and bying of twa drinkin syluer peices 1643 Edinb. Test. LX. 236 b.
Aucht littell anckeris or drinking stoups 1513 Doug. xiii. ix. 25.
The cowpys gret and drynkyn tassis fyne — 1627 Brechin Test. IV. 277.
Ane drinkin tuall and ane gryt tuall 1630 Bamff Chart. 223.
Twa hand towells, twa drinking towells 1649 Antiq. Aberd. & B. IV. 781.
Ten drinking towellis