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UK
/flˈætbɛd/
]
[ US /ˈfɫætˌbɛd/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫætˌbɛd/ ]
NOUN
- an open truck bed or trailer with no sides; used to carry large heavy objects
- freight car without permanent sides or roof
How To Use flatbed In A Sentence
- Each framed panel was shipped finished side up on a flatbed truck to the site.
- Piggybacked on a flatbed, the vehicle was delivered back to the repair shop.
- Flatbed trucks overstuffed with the carcasses of alligators shot through the back of the heads or brimmed with those skins of what were once alligators, now the figments of shoes and boots and briefcases and the homes of rats and the nests of birds. The Clown Show
- Simultaneously, we embarked into ‘desktop publishing,’ forsaking the old Line-O-Types and flatbed presses in our letterpress days.
- Next, an actual house came tearing down, white, wood framed, securely fastened to a flatbed truck. LOOKING FOR ANDREW MCCARTHY
- The van rolled several times and collided with a flatbed lorry parked on the hard shoulder while workers were carrying out repairs near by.
- Probably the printers had gone home for the day, so there would have been no clanking flatbed press, but large sheets of uncut book pages would have been hanging from overhead wooden racks in the ceiling, the ink drying.
- I don't have an effing thing to say about the occasion," grumbled Simmons, in his signature timbre, which is akin to whooshing gravel across a metal flatbed. SFGate: Top News Stories
- They kept people away and eventually carted away something on the back of a flatbed truck.
- The machines were also light enough in weight to be frequently hauled through the tunnels and operated on top of flatbed rail cars.