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pneus, n. pl. ? Obs.|njuːz| [Short for pneumatic n. 3.] Pneumatic tyres.
1902C. N. & A. M. Williamson Lightning Conductor 18 On roads like these of Dieppe it would be soothing to have ‘pneus’, as they call them. 1907― in Strand Mag. Nov. 500/1 [The motor-car], with heated pneus, topped a commanding hill. 1908Westm. Gaz. 31 Oct. 13/1 Before it [sc. the motor-car] can cease from injuring,..you have to construct suitable roads, highways which it can no longer tear up with its ferocious pneus. |