Definition of "flatcar" []

• A railroad freight car without sides or a roof. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• "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."