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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

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