What is "groggery"

Usage examples of "groggery".

He pulled in before a cheap groggery, scouted the territory, and reported no coppers in sight.

They took him down a side street, now utterly deserted, and left him on the steps of a low groggery, from whence still issued the voices of some late revellers.

Two or three rough-looking men were standing at the door of a low groggery opposite and they enjoyed the fun and laughed as merrily as the boys who were conducting the affair.

Some are occupied as dwelling-places, and some are divided into a sort of store or groggery and living and sleeping rooms.

Perhaps, on one ill-starred day, Larry had exited the makeshift groggery after wetting his whistle excessively and turned left instead of right.

Even more miraculously, the table slab had missed us when it was blown back into the groggery by the hurricane and shattered into a dozen pieces.

The parson had deemed the time ripe for a war on the groggeries of the Flats, with the outcome that most bar-rooms of the town, including that of the Tuscarora House, were found to be violating the Sunday closing law.

Got to figure a few river drivers use the time between the end of cutting and the start of the drive to visit the groggeries and whorehouses.

None but liquor dealers or men who desire to keep low groggeries are excluded.

Fergus to the wretched huts and groggeries of Clare Castle and the surrounding villages.

Of the groggeries of Limerick and of the poison vended in them, I will forbear to discourse, for my business just now is with the country rather than with the town.

They declare that they speak the truth, and the news of dog politics lately vouchsafed to me in groggeries inclines me to believe, but I won't.

He set off down the ill-lit street, passing dance halls and opium dens, groggeries and deadfalls by the dozens.