Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A railroad freight car without sides or a roof.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railroad-car consisting of a platform without sides or top; a platform-car.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Railroads) a railroad car without permanent sides or roof.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
railroad freight car withoutsides or aroof .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun freight car without permanent sides or roof
Etymologies
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Examples
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Containers are filled at their point of origin, sent to a port by truck or railroad flatcar, and hoisted aboard a vessel specially designed to carry as many as ten thousand so-called cans.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Containers are filled at their point of origin, sent to a port by truck or railroad flatcar, and hoisted aboard a vessel specially designed to carry as many as ten thousand so-called cans.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Containers are filled at their point of origin, sent to a port by truck or railroad flatcar, and hoisted aboard a vessel specially designed to carry as many as ten thousand so-called cans.
Makeshift Metropolis Witold Rybczynski 2010
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Still, that train derailing in the Arizona desert and a flatcar dumping a steam tractor in my Cinerama-enhanced lap is fixed forever and all time in my brain.
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He flung the reins from his hand and ran after the flatcar, heedless of the bullets crisscrossing through the air around him, and emptied the cylinder of his single-action Colt .45 at the machine gunner.
The Convict and Other Stories James Lee Burke 2010
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The load consisted of a two-piece transformer – one component on a heavy duty depressed center flatcar, the other on a cradle carried by a Schnabel car.
Sarracenia 2009
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Normally the flatcar would have been a ‘lookit that!’ item – with the Schnabel two cars away, it lacked punch.
Sarracenia 2009
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Also note the wee bike wagon or flatcar in front of the tram.
Gondola planned for Burnaby Mountain « Stephen Rees's blog 2009
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The load consisted of a two-piece transformer – one component on a heavy duty depressed center flatcar, the other on a cradle carried by a Schnabel car.
BBCX 1000 2009
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Normally the flatcar would have been a ‘lookit that!’ item – with the Schnabel two cars away, it lacked punch.
More Schnabel 2009
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