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flat-bed

flat-bed is the alternative form of flatbed.

Meaning of flatbed

Noun

flatbed (plural flatbeds)

  1. An open freight vehicle with no sides, designed to carry heavy or outsized loads.
  2. A railway freight car with no sides; a flatcar.
    • 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
  3. A document scanner with a flat bed.

See all 5 meanings of flatbed

Forms of flat-bed

pluralflat-beds

Questions about flat-bed

What is flat-bed the alternative form of?
Flat-bed is the alternative form of flatbed.

Words near flat-bed in the dictionary

  1. flat white
  2. flat whites
  3. flat wrack
  4. flat wracks
  5. flat-backed millipede
  6. flat-bed
  7. flat-beds
  8. flat-blade screwdriver
  9. flat-blade screwdrivers
  10. flat-bottom
  11. flat-bottomed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: flat-bed (page history and authors); flatbed (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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