flatbed

[ flat-bed ]

/ ˈflætˌbɛd /

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noun

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

flatbed scanner.

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Origin of flatbed

1870–75, for an earlier sense; flat¹ + bed

Words nearby flatbed

flasket, flat, flat arch, flat as a pancake, flat back, flatbed, flat-bed lorry, flat-bed plotter, flat-bed press, flatbed scanner, flatboat

How to use flatbed in a sentence

After the helicopter landed, a crew loaded the bus onto a waiting flatbed truck.
The ’Into the Wild’ Bus Is Gone… for Now|syadron|August 2, 2021|Outside Online
Instead, I just brought a charged battery bank to sleep with me to keep the air moving inside an otherwise stuffy flatbed.
These Gear Hacks Got Me Through a 30,000-Mile Road Trip|agintzler|July 27, 2021|Outside Online
The only way to grab a vehicle with a Ravelco is to load it on a flatbed, which is not going to happen in front of my house or a hotel.
How to Not Get Your Gear Stolen|agintzler|July 15, 2021|Outside Online
We’ll let you sit in the back of a flatbed truck as long as you have a mask on.
John Waters is bringing back the drive-in — with masks — at Md. Film Festival|Ed Gunts|May 19, 2021|Washington Blade

Under cover of darkness, Spath cut the lock on the gate and used a forklift borrowed from Olivarez’s parents to load their son’s 64 hive boxes, four to a pallet, onto a flatbed truck.
Bee theft is almost a perfect crime—but there’s a new sheriff in town|Andrew Zaleski|February 9, 2021|Popular-Science
In Donetsk it is presumed to have been off-loaded from the flatbed and started to move in a convoy on its own.
MH17 Missile Can't Hide From These Internet Sleuths|Eliot Higgins|August 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Flatbed trucks have been spotted carrying tanks toward Gaza.
War in Gaza Poses Risks for All Sides|Dan Ephron|November 16, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The two horses pulling the wagon, a flatbed with railed sides, halted at the creek.
Shaman|Robert Shea