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Meanings of flatcar in English

Freight car without permanent sides or roof.

Usage of flatcar in English
1
The flatcar groaned as the ape settled onto its broad steel bed.
Wild Cards IV: Aces Abroad
2
On the boxcar's far end another ladder let them descend to the flatcar.
The talisman
3
From the flatcar, Major Wilkinson waved and Lieutenant Jenkins gave him a thumbs-up.
American empire: blood and iron
4
They've got the heavy ramp ready to unload the barrel from its flatcar.
American empire: blood and iron
5
The phibs on the flatcar were hidden in amongst the explosives.
Logos Run
6
Hannah found an opening between a tanker and a flatcar stacked with lumber.
Watch them die
7
The flatcar erupted in a sheet of blue fire and a bellowing roar.
The talisman
8
He stood there for a moment, looking at it: stubby engine, empty boxcar, flatcar.
The talisman
9
Curt Hollis was walking past a flatcar loaded with lumber.
Ancient shores
10
He'd do the best job he could of getting this beast off the flatcar, too.
American empire: blood and iron
11
Jack saw the flatcar actually starting to rise from the track, as if it were taking off.
The talisman
12
So Richard came with him on Jack's last trip to the travelling ammo dump on the flatcar.
The talisman
13
They voted her a burial on the train's carried graveyard, in the flatcar cemetery of its greatest dead.
Iron Council
14
He wished he didn't have to back the barrel down the ramp to get it off the flatcar.
American empire: blood and iron
15
The little train sat pointing west on the tracks-anodd-lookingengine, a boxcar, a flatcar covered with a straining tarp.
The talisman
16
A section of six windows will be washed from top to the top, and the flatcar moved into a new position.
The new yorker
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