Definition of Groggeries

1. groggery [n] - See also: groggery

Lexicographical Neighbors of Groggeries

groceryman
grocerymen
grockel
grockels
grockle
grockles
grodier
grodiest
grody
groel protein
groenendael
groes protein
grog
grog-blossom
grogged
groggeries (current term)
groggery
groggier
groggiest
groggified
groggily
grogginess
grogginesses
grogging
groggy
groghouse
groghouses
grognard
grognards
grogram

Literary usage of Groggeries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1884)
"... Whiskey — The Indian Trader — Perambulating groggeries — Indian Wives and Half-breed Children — Growing Rich — Influence with Washington Magnates — The ..."

2. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-three Years Personal Experience Among the Red Men by Richard Irving Dodge (1882)
"... Posts —A Winter's Work for Whiskey — The Indian Trader — Perambulating groggeries — Indian Wives and Half-breed Children — Growing Rich — Influence with ..."

3. Speeches, Addresses, and Occasional Sermons by Theodore Parker (1861)
"... hundred are too insignificant to be noticed, or else are large hotels to be considered presently ; then there are one thousand common retail groggeries. ..."

4. The Collected Works of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by Theodore Parker, Frances Power Cobbe (1864)
"Let us suppose that each sells drink for really useful purposes to the amount of §65 per annum, or all to the amount of $65000; there still groggeries. ..."

5. The Collected Works of ... P. by Theodore Parker (1864)
"Let us suppose that each sells drink for really useful purposes to tho amount of $65 per annum, or all to the amount of $65000; there still groggeries. ..."

6. Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British by United States Congress, Marion Mills Miller, Great Britain Parliament (1913)
"For instance, of Fort Myer, Major Seaman says: Before the introduction of the canteen there were between ten and twenty low groggeries between the terminus ..."

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