The Collaborative International Dictionary
Drinking \Drink"ing\, n.
The act of one who drinks; the act of imbibing.
The practice of partaking to excess of intoxicating liquors.
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An entertainment with liquors; a carousal.
Note: 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.
Wiktionary
n. (context chiefly historical English) A drinking vessel fashioned from an animal's horn.
Wikipedia
A drinking horn is the horn of a bovid used as a drinking vessel. Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic Europe, and in the Caucasus. Drinking horns remain an important accessory in the culture of ritual toasting in Georgia in particular, where they are known as khantsi.
Drinking vessels made from glass, wood, ceramics or metal styled in the shape of drinking horns are also known from antiquity. The ancient Greek term for a drinking horn was simply keras (plural kerata, "horn"). To be distinguished from the drinking-horn proper is the rhyton (plural rhyta), a drinking-vessel made in the shape of a horn with an outlet at the pointed end.
Usage examples of "drinking horn".
Quaine, who had been sitting cross-legged beside Garn, waved them on, though Garn himself did not raise a hand and only regarded them with a cold, level stare across the rim of his drinking horn.
The fingers curled around the drinking horn were heavy with rings, gold and silver and bronze, set with chunks of sapphire and garnet and dragonglass.
When she told him what it said he tried to hit her, but Arya ducked under the blow, snatched a silver-banded drinking horn off his saddle, and darted away.
He refilled the drinking horn from the mead cask and handed it to the young warrior.
Again he drained the drinking horn and flung it into a corner, where it struck with a metallic sound.
There was a fine wolf fur, two otter pelts, a beaver fur and a hart's skin, a small gold torque, some brooches, a drinking horn wrapped in a silver wicker pattern and a Roman flask of pale green glass with a wonderfully delicate spout and a handle shaped as a wreath.
The drinking horn came round to her and she drank, then impulsively dipped her finger into the mead and touched it to her brow, her breast, the palms of her hands.
Instead, he inclined his head slightly toward his son-in-law, holding out a gold-chased drinking horn.
At the far end, flanked by his henchmen and their ladies, sat a richly garbed war lord, a drinking horn in one fist and most of a joint of meat in the other.
More: the smaller Chamco brother always put and kept his cash in the cup of an antique drinking horn that hung on the wall of his room.