wining

English

Verb

wining

1. present participle and gerund of wine

Noun

wining (plural winings)

1. A session of drinking wine socially.
   • 2014, Evelyn Barish, Emerson: The Roots of Prophecy, page 22:

     Similarly, in the Emerson home the adults—who presumably had already been adequately schooled in self-denial—might have their regular, formal winings and dinings.

Middle English

Noun

wining

1. Alternative form of wynnyng

Nalca

Noun

wining

1. bird