(only used in combinations) A person from a certain town, or part of town

The garden cress, or peppergrass.

Turritis glabra (syn. Arabis glabra), a tall, slim, grey-green plant with small creamy flowers at the top of the stem.

(fortifications) A bastion of masonry, often with chambers beneath it, built at an angle of the interior polygon of some works.

A large tower or chamber used in the manufacture of sulfuric acid, to condense the crude acid and to deliver concentrated acid charged with nitrous fumes. These fumes, as a catalyst, effect the conversion of sulfurous to sulfuric acid.

(video games) A style of real-time strategy video game in which the player attempts to stop enemies from crossing a map by building traps to slow them down and towers or turrets which shoot at them as they pass within range.

loofah plant

(UK) A locality for the purpose of classifying postal mail by delivery area.

A self-contained town, as opposed to a mere suburb, on the periphery of a metropolitan area.

(mining) headframe.