flatbed

[ flat-bed ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of flatbed¹

1870–75, for an earlier sense; flat ¹ + bed

Example Sentences

After the helicopter landed, a crew loaded the bus onto a waiting flatbed truck.

From Outside Online

Instead, I just brought a charged battery bank to sleep with me to keep the air moving inside an otherwise stuffy flatbed.

From 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.

From Outside Online

We’ll let you sit in the back of a flatbed truck as long as you have a mask on.

From 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.

From 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.

From The Daily Beast

Flatbed trucks have been spotted carrying tanks toward Gaza.

From The Daily Beast

The two horses pulling the wagon, a flatbed with railed sides, halted at the creek.

From Project Gutenberg