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Meanings of flatbed in English

Freight car without permanent sides or roof.

Usage of flatbed in English
1
The owner remembered the job and said it was a flatbed truck-in.
Driving Heat
2
Gretchen could see other dolls from the flatbed behind the posed doll.
Goodbye dolly
3
Darkies moving in, flatbed trucks loaded down with corn-shuck mattresses and pickaninnies.
Shift
4
The huge articulated flatbed had shuddered to a halt near College Green.
Aspho Fields
5
J.J. threw the newspapers into the flatbed, then climbed in beside her.
The man who ate the 747
6
The marines volunteered to help lift the bodies onto a flatbed truck.
The forever war
7
A flatbed truck is parked, festooned with a large sign reading Stop!
The Guardian
8
Whole families rode in rugged flatbed wagons drawn by water buffalo.
Wizardborn
9
They skitter-screeched forward at an angle, heading straight for the flatbed.
Fire With Fire
10
The flatbed contained milk cartons crammed with bright orange work gloves.
The Fireman
11
As Callerame talks, the scanner moves past the Mercedes on to the flatbed.
Wired
12
Pipes started cascading off the other, downhill side of the flatbed.
Fire With Fire
13
Its treads spun, and the flatbed dolly turned to the right.
First Strike
14
A tractor is pulling a flatbed trailer along the plantation's edge.
The Guardian
15
Christine, for once, didn't ride with him, but came in her family's flatbed.
Treecat Wars
16
A fully automatic gun of some sort rattled from the flatbed.
The Fireman
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United States of America
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