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Definition of Flatbed
1. Noun. Freight car without permanent sides or roof.
2. Noun. An open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects.
Definition of Flatbed
1. Noun. an open commercial vehicle with no sides; designed to carry heavy or outsize loads ¹
2. Noun. a railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar ¹
3. Adjective. (computing) (''of a device, such as a scanner or plotter'') having a flat bed ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Flatbed
1. a type of truck or trailer [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatbed
Literary usage of Flatbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Drugs of Abuse (1996) edited by Carol Gibson (1996)
"Securing supplies on a flatbed for movement forward The Support Commands 318th
Transportation Agency (Movement Control) coordinated the movement by ..."
2. Review of International Technologies for Destruction of Recovered Chemical by National Research Council (U.S.) (2006)
"Three CDC models can be moved on flatbed trucks (1 to 8 trailers depending on
model). Effective for several munition and agent types; not tested for nerve ..."
3. Transportation Expressions (1996) by Richard Feldman (1998)
"... flatbed: Truck or trailer without sides and top. (ATA1) Flatboat: A rectangular,
flat bottomed boat used on the western rivers during the 18th and 19th ..."
4. Technical Guidelines for Digitizing Archival Materials for Electronic Access by Steven T. Puglia, Jeffrey Reed, Erin Rhodes (2005)
"... lighting from only one The close-up on the left shows an embossed seal when
scanned on a flatbed scanner with two lights and very even illumination, ..."
5. Surviving Twilight: A Soldier's Chronicle of Daily Life in Iraq by Shane A. Bernskoetter (2005)
"In a briefing this afternoon we found out the new unit's trucks are on the way
up here on KBR flatbed trailers! I was so excited to hear this. ..."
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