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plural flatbeds
An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads. examples
A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar. quotations examples
The Rotrac E2 shunter was built by German manufacturer Zwiehoff and has been subject to a 14-month trial to prove it can replace diesel traction for moving flatbed wagons in and out of the depot.
2021 December 29, “Network News: DRS acquires compact electric shunter”, in RAIL, number 947, page 14, photo caption
(computing) A document scanner with a flat bed. examples
not comparable
Having a flat bed. examples
third-person singular simple present flatbeds, present participle flatbedding, simple past and past participle flatbedded
To transport by flatbed. quotations examples
Tatiana went from working the pulley that lifted the treadless tank and placed it on tread, to painting the red star on a finished tank ready to be flatbedded and put into production.
2000, Paullina Simons, The Bronze Horseman
'Well, we won't know about prints till we can flatbed his SUV back to Middle Street and check, but given he left the car in a hurry, my guess is we'll find something, maybe quite a lot.
2011 -, James Hayman, The Cutting
“I'm going to have to flatbed this vehicle,” Larry said with an air of importance that irritated Pytel.
2012, Rus Bradburd, Make It, Take It, page 23