overland

1. especiallynot comparableBy or across land.

   Let's take the overland route.

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

   1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene v]

1. not comparableOver, across, or by land.

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

   1589, Jerome Horsey, manuscript reproduced in Edward Augustus Bond (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, T. Richards (1856), page 317

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   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.

   1786, Earl Cornwallis, letter to Viscount Brome, reproduced in Charles Ross (ed.), Correspondence of Charles, First Marquis Cornwallis, volume 1, second edition, John Murray (1859), page 247

   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.

   1919, Kilroy Harris, Outback in Australia […] , Garden City Press, page 3

   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.

   2008, Shah Mahmoud Hanifi, Connecting Histories in Afghanistan, Stanford University Press, published 2011, →ISBN, page 57

plural overlands

1. lifestyleA trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa.

present singular third person overlands · participle present overlanding · participle past overlanded · past overlanded

1. AustraliatransitiveTo transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land.

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

   2000, Ian Parsonson, The Australian Ark: A History of Domesticated Animals in Australia, Csiro, →ISBN, page 102

   Synonyms: drove

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

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

   2017 [2010], Pat Garrod, Bearback: The World Overland, paperback edition, Troubador, →ISBN