Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of overland
nounoverlanding (uncountable)
- uncountableThe practice of travelling overland, or moving stock overland.
Is an overlanding trip trucking hell, or a good way to reach the parts that local buses don't get to?
2006 March 11, Mark Eveleigh, “Africa made easy”, in The Guardian, →ISSN - uncountableHaving not taken air or water craft for any significant portion of the distance travelled.
"Overlanding," however, was a feat that was not to be accomplished without danger and, in some cases, loss of life. Some of the drovers on their way to Port Darwin found the body of a poor fellow near the Roper River.
1887, Harriet W. Daly, Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page 219
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