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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
flatbed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
truck
▪ They came with two flatbed trucks and they emptied the apartment.
▪ Several at the scene said low flatbed trucks had been stuck at the crossing in the past.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Cheaper flatbed plotters, capable of plotting on sheets of A4 or A3 size paper, can be interfaced to personal computers.
▪ Several at the scene said low flatbed trucks had been stuck at the crossing in the past.
▪ Somewhat surprisingly one of the cheapest scanners, the Thunderscan, can outperform most of the expensive flatbed machines in this respect.
▪ They came with two flatbed trucks and they emptied the apartment.
Wiktionary
flatbed

a. Having a flat bed. n. 1 An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. 2 A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar

WordNet
flatbed
  1. n. freight car without permanent sides or roof [syn: flatcar, flat]

  2. an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects

Wikipedia
Flatbed

Flatbed may refer to:

  • Flatbed digital printer, the reproduction of digital images on physical surfaces
  • Flatbed editor, a type of machine used for the editing of a motion picture film
  • Flatbed scanner, an image scanner used for scanning paper or transparency originals into digital form
  • Flatbed seat, airline seat that reclines to a full-horizontal flat position to form a bed
  • Flatbed truck, a type of truck which has an entirely flat, level body with absolutely no sides or roof
  • Lockheed Flatbed, a proposed cargo aircraft design

Usage examples of "flatbed".

The shell of the Baptist church arrived early Friday morning in twin flatbeds, a third truck with an attached crane carrying the interior fixtures and other nonstructural items in its half van.

The big rigs -- the stupendously oversize vans, the doublewide trailers, the canvas-flapping Omars, the sedans, the commercial flatbeds -- all moved like a herd of animals, in an orderly, coordinated way, our speed about as fast as a person can run.

It looked just like a plain flatbed semitrailer truck with a shipping container on the back.

The decision was sealed when those parking spaces were occupied by flatbed semitrailer rigs with big GODS shipping containers on their backs.

Crews of mechanics from Leibstandarte clustered around the tanks on their flatbeds, local rail operators assisted by uncoupling the cars one at a time.

Within an hour of their arrival, the cages were lifted from the barges and loaded on a train with twelve flatbed cars.

Everything was horsedrawn in flatbed wagons and being carted to large wooden warehouses that lined the area.

Officer Delinko noticed that three portable latrines were strapped on the back of the flatbed truck.

A week later he left Saltillo on the back of a flatbed truck heading north.

Monday a San Juan County sheriffs deputy, who happened to have read the paperwork about the stolen flatbed trailer and backhoe, also happened to get more or less lost while trying to deliver a warrant.

Behind the flatbed were two more enormous eightwheeled transports, each bearing malcontents armed with autocannons.

On the other hand, some owners, who prefer more obvious restraints for their women, who are, after all, slaves, use flatbedded wagons with mounted slave bars of various sorts, sometimes with intricate chainings or couplings.

Others, pelted by Oklahoma dust storms, were jostled home in flatbeds cushioned by bright posters from carnivals buried in the wind-blown desolations of 1936 America.

Incredibly, a flatbed truck festooned with sandbags smashed through the burning bushes.

A matched team of Rumoag draft horses pulls an empty flatbed wagon from the hauling yard.