flatcar
1
6.4
- noun
- /ˈflætˌkɑr/
- Specialized
:
vagón plano
- The squadron commander had told him that some of the trains were armed with antiaircraft machine guns and light cannon mounted on flatcars.
- flatcar loaded
Examples
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On flatcars.
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Frozen, prone on the flatcars, he extended the length of ten tall men, of two rail cars.
Fiction book (1996) -
Pretty soon, the only way you'll get that beer can some place... is you load it on a flatcar.
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There they could be loaded on flatcar trucks and taken to Eilat.
Fiction book (1993) -
Bark from the pulpwood on a flatcar was blowing in my face when I realized that I was not going to jump off.
Fiction book (1990) -
Giant beer bottles on railroad flatcars.
Fiction book (1994) -
A postcard from Florida showed a freight train's flatcar loaded with an orange the size of a house.
Fiction book (1999) -
The landing craft are loaded on flatcars in Haifa, ready to go.
Fiction book (1993) -
The train moved slowly, carrying lathe machines under tarpaulin covers on the flatcars and refugees in the heated freight cars, traveling mainly at night.
Fiction book (2001) -
The workers loaded the heavy machinery onto a flatcar for transportation across the country.
Synonyms
9
4.2
A truck or train car with a flat open bed for carrying large heavy items
4
3.2
A vehicle on a train that carries goods like boxes or crates
1
7.4
A train car with a flat floor and no sides or roof
How Big
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Morphology
Etymology
Flatcar is made from two simple words: flat ('level') and car ('vehicle'). So a flatcar is a level rail vehicle with a flat surface used to carry large or heavy things that do not fit inside a closed rail car.