A low drinking den.

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1818.  [In Kentucky] too many of the groceries are grogeries [sic].—Henry C. Knight (‘Arthur Singleton’), ‘Letters from the South and West,’ p. 94 (Boston, 1824).

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1835.  Long lines of unpainted, wretched looking dwellings, occupied as “groggeries,” by free negroes, or poor emigrants.—Ingraham, ‘The South-West,’ ii. 190.

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1858.  

        At dawn the loafer sneaks from bed,
  In all his rough attire,
And totters to the “groggery”
  To quench the liquid fire.
Olympia (W.T.) Pioneer, Jan. 1.    

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