Noun

(head)

Noun

(grogerries)

(archaic) An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages

*{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Thomas Webster, title=Woman= Man's Equal, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=If women had a voice in the making of the laws, how long would the dram-shop and low groggery send out their liquid poison to pollute civilized lands? }}

*{{quote-book, year=1873, author=Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) and Charles Dudley Warner, title=The Gilded Age, Part 4., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Dusenheimer, standing in the door of his uninviting groggery , when the trains stopped for water; never received from the traveling public any patronage except facetious remarks upon his personal appearance. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1908, author=Allen Chapman, title=Bart Stirling's Road to Success, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The Sharp Corner was a second-class groggery and boarding house, patronized almost entirely by the poorest and most shiftless class of trackmen. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1915, author=Harold MacGrath, title=The Voice in the Fog, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=This man Jameson pinches 'em, but his mate follows him up an' has it out with him in a waterfront groggery . }}

*{{quote-book, year=1920, author=Peter B. Kyne, title=Kindred of the Dust, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=An instant later, an empty beer-bottle dropped with a crash in the tonneau, and Donald, turning, beheld in the door of a Darrow groggery one of the Greek fishermen He had dispossessed. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1925, author=Various, title=Stories of Achievement, Volume III (of 6), chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=I then proceeded to a low groggery in Lincoln Square, and in the space of half an hour drank several glasses of brandy; this in addition to what I had taken before made me very drunk, and I staggered home as well as I could. }}