rummery n.
a saloon.
 | Quincy (IL) Whig 29 Jan. 2/3: The friend [...] saw a person who had just drank, put three cents down as pay. He, turning to the young man, asked him if it could be a three-cent rummery [DA]. | |
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | Democratic Pioneer (Upper Sandusky, OH) 4 June 1/5: When you enter a rummery now about town, must call for ‘pickled eels feet’ and in comes your hot punch. | |
| Hillsdale Standard (MI) 26 Aug. 1/6: His two companions entered an adjoining rummery and called for whiskey skins. | |
| Freeland Trib. (PA) 17 Sept. 1/3: They went into a low rummery, where the pair had three beers each. | |
| Advance 12 Nov. n.p.: His re-election does not prove that the people of the state are going to sell out to the rummeries [DA]. | |
| Commonwealth (Scotland Neck, NC) 18 Aug. 1/2: The new-fangled rummery is said to be doing a rushing business. | |
| From Coast to Coast with Jack London 79–80: A professional bouncer in the employ of the rummery noted the snoozing patron. |