flatbed

[flat-bed]

noun

1. Also called flatbed trailer,. Also called flatbed truck. a truck or trailer having an open body in the form of a platform without sides or stakes.

2. flatbed scanner.

Word History and Origins

Origin of flatbed¹

1870–75, for an earlier sense; flat ¹ + bed

Example Sentences

They saw people going in and out, carrying boxes out of the house onto a flatbed truck as though they were “sanitizing a crime scene,” the family’s lawsuit says.

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Five flatbed vehicles were also driven past the ground prior to kick-off of the Europa League match, carrying electronic billboards showing messages opposing antisemitism.

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Roz was out in the fields, loading hay bales onto the flatbed truck, as towering, puffy clouds rose up from the south.

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Last year, an archivist located the negative and brought it to one of Bettmann’s labs, where she placed it on a flatbed scanner.

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At 6.5-feet long, it was a manageable size and something he could fit on a flatbed truck.

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