to give something to drink: to water land, water animals, or hand a person a drink
This verb is the active, causative side of the ordinary word for drinking. Where one word means "to drink," this one means "to make drink": to put water (or wine, or any liquid) to the mouth of a living thing, or to bring water to dry ground so it can take it in.
The same picture covers a wide field. A servant lowers her jar and gives a thirsty traveler water; a shepherd draws from a well and waters the flock; a stream rises and soaks a garden. In every case someone or something receives drink at another's hand, and that is the heart of the word.
From there the prophets and poets stretch it into a powerful image. To "make a person drink" can mean to fill them with wine until they are helpless, or to force on them a cup of suffering that God has poured out. The act is the same, giving drink, but the drink is judgment, and the one made to drink has no choice in it.
Because the literal and the figurative uses share one plain action, this is a single word with a single core, not several unrelated words. The senses below sort that one action by who or what is given drink, and by whether the drink is welcome or dreadful.