overland

== English == === Etymology === From over +‎ land. === Pronunciation === === Adjective === overland (not comparable) (especially of travel) By or across land. ==== Translations ==== === Adverb === overland (not comparable) Over, across, or by land. 1589, Jerome Horsey, manuscript reproduced in Edward Augustus Bond (ed.), Russia at the Close of the Sixteenth Century, T. Richards (1856), page 317: To prevent this, he practised that none of the Companies servauntes shuld be suffered to goe overland with letters. 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: 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. ==== Translations ==== === Noun === overland (plural overlands) (travel) A trip by land between the UK and the Indian subcontinent or Australia, or between the UK and South Africa. (Can we add an example for this sense?) === Verb === overland (third-person singular simple present overlands, present participle overlanding, simple past and past participle overlanded) (transitive, Australia) To transport (especially sheep or other farm animals) over land. Synonym: drove (intransitive, Australia) To travel across land. (intransitive) To go on a recreational expedition to a remote destination, often with the aid of an off-road vehicle. ==== Derived terms ==== overlander === Anagrams === Landover, rondavel