flatbed

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.

2. 2

   A railway freight car with no sides

   A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.

   • The Rotrac E2 shunter was built by German manufacturer Zwiehoff and has been subject to a 14-month trial to prove it can replace diesel traction for moving flatbed wagons in and out of the depot.
3. 3

   Clipping of flatbed trolley.

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   1. 4

      A document scanner with a flat bed.

   2. 5

      Having a flat bed.

      • I can't scan the whole document quickly because I only have a flatbed scanner.
      • The accident left the contents of a flatbed trailer scattered across all three lanes.
   3. 6

      To transport by flatbed.

      • Tatiana went from working the pulley that lifted the treadless tank and placed it on tread, to painting the red star on a finished tank ready to be flatbedded and put into production.
      • 'Well, we won't know about prints till we can flatbed his SUV back to Middle Street and check, but given he left the car in a hurry, my guess is we'll find something, maybe quite a lot.
      • “I'm going to have to flatbed this vehicle,” Larry said with an air of importance that irritated Pytel.

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