DCHP-1 Online
groggery † Obs. 
n. a low-class tavern.
See also: grocery store (def. 2)
- 1860 The case was clearly proved by a Frenchman, who had purchased over a pint of bad whiskey at Herveyworth's unlicensed groggery, and "consumed it on the premises."
- 1894 He then asked me to come with him to the little groggery he was staying at, and have a drink, I wondering if he would pay me.
- 1909 It is said the surveying party were too much inclined to hang around some low groggeries on the Penetanguishene Road, and did their work badly.
- 1860 The case was clearly proved by a Frenchman, who had purchased over a pint of bad whiskey at Herveyworth's unlicensed groggery, and "consumed it on the premises."