town gas

1. 1.

   coal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial use

   Broadercoal gas

   United Kingdom

Questions about town gas

What does town gas mean?

town gas means "coal gas manufactured for domestic and industrial use".

Is town gas a common word?

town gas is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.