noun

• A railroad freight car without a roof or sides.

  ‘It was a huge railway mortar, a flatcar with a giant gun on it.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The plantation-style tree farm, founded in 1955, started moving truck trailers loaded with trees on railroad flatcars in 1988.’
  • ‘I later learn the Friends of the Bodie Railway & Lumber Company have found and restored one of the old flatcars, now displayed at June Lake.’
  • ‘Depending on their design, flatcars can accommodate containers that are placed singly or stacked two high.’
  • ‘The canvas had slipped off onto the flatcar revealing a cannon.’