flatcar

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   chiefly North American, a railroad freight car with a flat open deck and no permanent sides or roof, used for containers, vehicles, machinery, and other bulky loads

   An observer on the flatcar tossed a ball upward as the train moved at constant speed.

A transparent North American compound of flat + car, with car used in its railway sense. British railway terminology normally uses flat wagon for the same basic type of open, level-deck freight vehicle.

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