Drink"ing, n.
1.
The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
2.
The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
3.
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.
© Webster 1913.