"groggery" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: groggeries [plural]
Etymology: grog + -ery Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|grog|ery}} grog + -ery Head templates: {{en-noun}} groggery (plural groggeries)
  1. (archaic) An establishment that sells alcoholic beverages Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-groggery-en-noun-E6HOidh~ Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ery

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1873, Thomas Webster, Woman= Man's Equal",
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          "ref": "1873, Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), Charles Dudley Warner, The Gilded Age, Part 4.",
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          "ref": "1920, Peter B. Kyne, Kindred of the Dust",
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        },
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