wining

wining is the present participle and gerund of wine.

Meaning of wine

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

(transitive) To entertain (someone) with wine.
- Neither Major Wadhams nor I is accustomed to being wined and dined by perfect strangers who do not even present themselves, but leave servants to do the honors, consequently to both of us our present situation smacks of romance and adventure;1919, Lee Meriwether, The War Diary of a Diplomat, Dodd, Mead and Company, page 159
(intransitive) To drink wine.
- I rushed into my cabin, coffeed, wined, and went to bed sobbing.1839, Thomas Chandler Haliburton, The Clockmaker

wine (third-person singular simple present wines, present participle wining, simple past and past participle wined)

(intransitive) To perform a Jamaican dance, such as the Dutty Wine.
- Carolina come wine 'pon me / Oh watch how di gyal groove1993, Shaggy, “Oh Carolina”

wining (plural winings)

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

plural	winings

What does wining mean?: Wining means a session of drinking wine socially.
What is wining the present participle and gerund of?: Wining is the present participle and gerund of wine.
What part of speech is wining?: Wining is a noun.
What is the plural of wining?: The plural of wining is winings.

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