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Overland

adj, adv, noun, verb

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    By or across land. especially, not-comparable

    "Let's take the overland route."

Adjective
  1. 1
    traveling or passing over land wordnet
Adverb
  1. 1
    Over, across, or by land. not-comparable

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

Noun
  1. 1
    A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.
Verb
  1. 1
    To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land. Australia, transitive

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

  2. 2
    To travel across land. Australia, intransitive
  3. 3
    To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle. intransitive

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

From over + land.

Etymology 2

From over + land.

Etymology 3

From over + land.

Etymology 4

From over + land.

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