Overland

Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective

Meaning

(especially of travel) By or across land..

Definitions by Sense

1. (especially of travel) By or across land.
2. Over, across, or by land.
3. (travel) A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
4. (transitive, Australia) To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.
5. (intransitive, Australia) To travel across land.
6. (intransitive) To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle.

Example Sentences

Let's take the overland route.

So, sir. I desire of you A conduct overland to Milford Haven.

To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters.

The packet that was coming to us overland, and that left England in July, was cut off by the wild Arabs between Aleppo and Bussora.

Riding overland from Sydney to Brisbane, along the beautiful North Coast district of New South Wales, I tied my neddy up on the roadside and investigated a bark-shanty some little distance off in the Bush.

It is unclear whether the Peshin sayyid traveled overland or by ship to Bombay from where he accompanied the goods by sea to Karachi or one of the smaller ports in Sind, then overland to Bela, Kelat, Qandahar, Kabul, and Bukhara.

Not long after, in 1878, Nathaniel Buchanan overlanded cattle from Queensland to Glencoe and Daly River stations in the Northern Territory.

I don't think any of them had done the backpacker thing and certainly hadn't overlanded through Africa before, as we had.

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• overlands
• overlanding
• overlanded

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