subs. phr. (American).—A grog-shop, a grocery with a license.
1869. A. K. MCCLURE, Three Thousand Miles through the Rocky Mountains, 55. [Platt City] consists of one fair hotel, several one-story boarding-houses for operatives, several warehouses, as many stores, and about forty ‘WHISKEY-MILLS,’ or small groceries where whiskey, tobacco, and portable eatables are sold at fabulous prices.
